Week 2 – Gendered Modernism

Primary Texts:

Gertrude Stein – “A Substance in a Cushion” from Tender Buttons (1914)

Edna St. Vincent Millay – “[I, being born a woman]” (1923)

Marianne Moore - "Nevertheless" (1944)

Secondary Reading:

Christopher Beach – “Gendered Modernism” from The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, pp. 72-92.

Gertrude Stein - Poetry and Grammar

Christopher Beach – Gendered Modernism
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [I, being born a woman]
Gertrude Stein – A Substance in a Cushion
Gertrude Stein - Poetry and Grammar
Marianne Moore - Nevertheless
GENDERED MODERNISM