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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Mapel-Bloomberg, Kristin. "Tracing Arachne's Web: Modernism's Femin(ine)ist Fictions," Department of English, University of Nebraska, May 1998.
The economic and social tumults of the American Civil War and the First World War led to conditions of crisis in the lives of American women who responded by turning to alternative spiritual ideologies and occult philosophies. This dissertation traces the development of a specific cultural thread in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins, Onoto Watanna, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, which reflects the fin-de-siecle cultural fascination with feminine liberatory roles in spiritual occult traditions and Classical mythology to draw out foundational cultural correspondences between women writers of color and white women writers, thus creating a redefined notion of American Modernism
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