The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945

Volume 18 | 2022 | Searching for the Modern Girl

Searching for the Modern Girl:  Flappers and Bright Young Things Around the World

A Special Topics Issue


Victoria Kuttainen

Jilly Lippmann

Editors' Introduction

ARTICLES

Feminists and Fashion Plates: The Brazilian Mulher Moderna in O Cruzeiro, 1928-1940
Danielle Stewart, University of Warwick

“Is the Flapper a Menace?”: Miss Toronto, Delight, and the Making of the Modern Toronto Girl
Kathryn Franklin, University of Toronto

Commodification, Corporeality, Crisis? Weimar Modern Girls, Image, and Aesthetic in Cultural Criticism
Lilean Buhl, Leibniz University Hannover

“But now my outfit is complete”: Weimar Modernism and Irmgard Keun’s Material Girls
Sovay Muriel Hansen, University of Arizona

Constructed Identity and Commodity Culture in My Lucky Star
Ann Victoria Dolinko, North Central College
B. A. Thurber, Independent Scholar

GENERAL TOPICS FEATURES

"Notoriously an inarticulate nation": Feeling World War II through Mollie Panter-Downes's London Letters
Sarah Cornish, University of Northern Colorado

“Coloring” the Modernist Bookshelf: The Case of Jean Rhys
Ruchi Mundeja, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi


NEW EDITIONS FROM THE SPACE BETWEEN 

Paris: A Poem, by Hope Mirrlees
Deborah Levy, foreword; Julia Briggs, commentary; and Sandeep Parmar, afterword. 
Reviewed by Diane Drouin

Pilgrimage 1 & 2: Pointed Roofs and Backwater, by Dorothy Richardson
Scott McCracken, general editor
Reviewed by Joshua Phillips


BOOK REVIEWS

The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes
Juno Richards
Reviewed by Geneviève Brassard

Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex
Timothy Wientzen
Reviewed by Megan Faragher

Editing the Harlem Renaissance
Joshua M. Murray and Ross K. Tangedal, editors
Reviewed by Chris Dingwall

Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death, and the First World War
Alice Kelly
Reviewed by Debra Rae Cohen

CONTRIBUTORS
Biographies

FROM THE EDITOR
Acknowledgements

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