Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908 1934: (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

In this book, Rachel Blau DuPlessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around such social issues of modernity as suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities. DuPlessis engages with the work of such canonical poets as Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore and H. D.