Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the book argues that the poetry of modernist women that engages with, examines or critiques the new leisure technologies of their era is fundamentally changed by the encounter with that technology. The chapters in the book focus on shopping, advertising, dance, film, radio and phonography, on city spaces such as Coney Island, Greenwich Village and Harlem, and on poetry that embraces the linguistic and formal innovations of modernism whilst paying close attention to the embodied politics of gender. The technologized city, and the leisure cultures and media forms emerging from it, enabled modernist women writers to re-imagine forms of lyric embodiment, inspired by the impact of technology on modern ideas of selfhoodand subjectivity.

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Alex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the book argues that the poetry of modernist women that engages with, examines or critiques the new leisure technologies of their era is fundamentally changed by the encounter with that technology. The chapters in the book focus on shopping, advertising, dance, film, radio and phonography, on city spaces such as Coney Island, Greenwich Village and Harlem, and on poetry that embraces the linguistic and formal innovations of modernism whilst paying close attention to the embodied politics of gender. The technologized city, and the leisure cultures and media forms emerging from it, enabled modernist women writers to re-imagine forms of lyric embodiment, inspired by the impact of technology on modern ideas of selfhood and subjectivity.

Inhalt
1. Introduction: Technicity and the American Techno-city           The Technological Entrepôt

          The Poem Machine           Technicity, Feminism and the Posthuman

          Gender, Poetry and the Techno-City

2        Let's Go Shopping

          Shopping the Feminine in Rogue Magazine

          Women, Consumerism and New York

          Selling the Subject

3        Amusing Spaces

          Amusement Parks

          Bohemia

          Black Metropolis

4        Dancing Bodies

          Dancing Machines and Isadora

          Spectacle, Dance and the Non-Human

Dancing Across Modernity

5        Feminine Projections

          Stars and Vamps

          Modernist Women in Close Up

          The Camera Eye, Politics and Hollywood

6        Sound Machines

          Electro-Acoustic Sound, Noise and the Techno-City

          Broadcasting Stein

          Women Writing Radio

7        Epilogue: Digital Humanities and Posthuman Feminist Modernism