Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger

Author:	Marcus, Jane Mills, Jean (Edt)
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9781835538746
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Language:	English
Page Count:	325
Publication Date:	10/1/2024
Size:	9.00" l x 6.00" w x 0.75"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Literary
Literary Criticism	English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism	Women Authors

Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger reshapes our understanding of a woman, whose role in key historical, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century was either dismissed and attacked, or undervalued.

Here, Jane Marcus, who was one of the most insightful critics of modernism and a pioneering feminist scholar, is unafraid and unapologetic in addressing and contesting Nancy Cunard’s reputation and reception as a spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Woman.” Instead, with her characteristic provocative and energetic writing style, Marcusinsists we reconsider issues of gender, race, and class in relation to the accusations, stereotypes, and scandal, which have dominated, and continue to dominate, our perception of Cunard in the public record.

In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger brings its subject into the 21st century, offering a bold and innovative portrait of a woman we all thought we knew.