Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 - Hardcover

Benstock, Shari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292790295 ISBN 13: 9780292790292

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1976

Synopsis

Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years. This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it a distinguished contribution to modern literary history. Jane Marcus hails it as the first serious literary history of the period and its women writers, making along the way no small contribution to our understanding of the relationships between women artists and their male counterparts, from Henry James to Hemingway, Joyce, Picasso, and Pound.

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Review:

Benstock has made visible the women of the Left Bank (1900-40) and in doing so has forced a redefinition of what literary modernism was, who was important in it, and how it is to be defined.... Modernism as we will understand it for a long time to come will be defined by Benstock's book... Shari Benstock... weaves together, with great skill, the histories of an extraordinary group of talented women--publishers like Sylvia Beach, Caresse Crosby, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, novelists Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Edith Wharton. She examines in some depth the writing produced by poets, journalists and novelists, thus combining literary criticism and social history in a seamless running narrative.... A valuable and intriguing book.

About the Author:

SHARI BENSTOCK is Professor of English at the University of Miami (Florida).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0292790295
• ISBN 13: 9780292790292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32