2. History as Conjugation: Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Part I. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
5. 1. Recovering the Repression in Stein’s Erotic Poetry 3
6. 2. History as Conjugation: Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem 26
7. Part II. H. D. (1886-1961)
8. 3. H. D., Modernism, and the Transgressive Sexualities of Decadent-Romantic Platonism 45
9. 4. Pornopoeia, the Modernist Canon, and the Cultural Capital of Sexual Literacy: The Case of H. D. 69
10. Part III. Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
11. 5. “So As to Be One Having Some Way of Being One Having Some Way of Working”: Marianne Moore and Literary Tradition 97
12. 6. “The Frigate Pelican” ’s Progress: Marianne Moore’s Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice 117
13. Part IV. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
14. 7. Jouissance and the Sentimental Daughter: Edna St. Vincent Millay 143
15. 8. Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation 170
16. Part V. Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991)
17. 9. Laura (Riding) Jackson’s “Really New” Poem 191
18. Part VI. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
19. 10. The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon 217
20. Part VII. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
21. 11. Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics 247
22. 12. “The Buried Life and the Body of Waking”: Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History 264
23. Part VIII. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917– )
24. 13. Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the “Margins” 283
25. Contributors 313
26. Index 315
27. Backmatter 322