By L. Cucullu
This booklet hyperlinks the major innovators of modernism to the cult of the fashionable professional. In historicizing modernism as a special mode of information that competes with different kinds of workmanship from legislation to psychology, Lois Cucullu indicates how 3 modernist specialists - Woolf, Forster, and Joyce - used technical strategies within the novel to exchange reigning Victorian ideals approximately marriage, procreation and the relatives. Modernist narratives of awareness and our bodies convert the gendered household sphere into a cultured person who supplies cultural copy and a latest cultural classification the centrality as soon as accorded organic replica and the bourgeois loved ones.
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These Retailing the Female Intellectual 37 new priorities are apparent later when in A Room of One’s Own, on receiving news of her inheritance from an aunt and the news of the suffrage extension, the novelist admits: ‘Of the two – the vote and the money – the money, I own, seemed infinitely more important’ (37). In the final analysis, modernism, the printing press, and the market prevailed, a fact that her fiction of the period also bears out. With her first two novels, both published by her half-brother Gerald Duckworth and linked frequently with the subgenre of the New Woman novel, we can make out a growing disaffection with the polarizing politics of female enfranchisement, with New Woman aesthetics, and with realist fiction.
I must have a motor-car. And it was thus that I became a novelist’ (287). As she drolly recalls it, her creativity is absolutely entwined with modern acquisitiveness and urbane consumption. The rewards of journal writing can be exchanged for a pedigree cat; novel writing for a private automobile – which the Woolfs in fact acquired in 1927, their first, necessitated in part by their house in the country, the one necessitating the other, and these in turn Retailing the Female Intellectual 43 necessitating other emblems of status and leisure.
39 Yet Women, Modernism, and the Cult of Experts 25 this upward spiral of class advancement still left women at a decided disadvantage. Even when they attempted to gain entry through those domains in which they had a proprietary interest or prior claim, by taking advantage, for example, of the social authority formerly granted to them in the household, they met encumbrance. Fields like teaching or nursing identified with the home did not garner the same status as those fields in which men were preponderant, but on the contrary, the Ehrenreichs explain, came to be regarded as auxiliary disciplines, further evidence of the depreciation of the household economy (27).