Jessica L Berman

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

In this book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commona...

Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Maryland Baltimore County, June 8-11

Papers from the inaugural Woolf conference of the millennium address the future of Woolf study, especially as an opportunity for new intellectual exchanges and mixtures. Among the over forty contributions are several focusing on teaching _A Room of One's Own_.

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (Modernist Latitudes)

Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement...