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Individualism, Decadence and GlobalizationNew Women, Female Aesthetes, and Socialist Individualists: the Literature of Separateness and Solubility

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: New Women, Female Aesthetes, and Socialist... [Although it is always dangerous to write history while it is being lived, the current consensus is that in the last quarter of the twentieth century modern Western societies entered a third stage of technocracy. The first had been the industrial revolution; the second was the mass transmission of cinema, radio, and television; and the most recent is called the Information Age. The first is associated with liberal individuals with deep subjectivities enabled, as we shall see, by a women’s literature of intimate relationship. The second, the period of literary modernism, produced the sublime hopes of democracy, the masses, socialism and then fascism, in which the “rigors” of fascism opposed the threats of femininity and the masses, and literature often took sides formally and substantively. The third is in the process of producing biotechnological individuals, in which the eugenicists’ dream of parthenogenesis attempts to diminish the traditional role of women even while science itself — genetics — is becoming more feminized.1 In this chapter I consider the models of individualism introduced in the previous chapter through the lens of gender.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Individualism, Decadence and GlobalizationNew Women, Female Aesthetes, and Socialist Individualists: the Literature of Separateness and Solubility

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
ISBN
978-1-349-31995-4
Pages
61 –86
DOI
10.1057/9780230277540_3
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[Although it is always dangerous to write history while it is being lived, the current consensus is that in the last quarter of the twentieth century modern Western societies entered a third stage of technocracy. The first had been the industrial revolution; the second was the mass transmission of cinema, radio, and television; and the most recent is called the Information Age. The first is associated with liberal individuals with deep subjectivities enabled, as we shall see, by a women’s literature of intimate relationship. The second, the period of literary modernism, produced the sublime hopes of democracy, the masses, socialism and then fascism, in which the “rigors” of fascism opposed the threats of femininity and the masses, and literature often took sides formally and substantively. The third is in the process of producing biotechnological individuals, in which the eugenicists’ dream of parthenogenesis attempts to diminish the traditional role of women even while science itself — genetics — is becoming more feminized.1 In this chapter I consider the models of individualism introduced in the previous chapter through the lens of gender.]

Published: Nov 30, 2015

Keywords: Short Story; Woman Writer; Socialist Individualist; Woman Literature; Yellow Book

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