Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl

Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl

This article examines Kay Boyle’s Process (1925, published 2001) and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl (1939, published 1978) as modernist female bildungsromans. Specifically, the paper will analyze the intersection of the sexualized female body with physical place and geography to situate the protagonist...

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Main Author: Beth WIDMAIER CAPO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2013-06-01
Series:E-REA
Subjects:
Kay Boyle
Process
Meridel Le Sueur
The Girl
bildungsroman
city
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3062
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spelling doaj-dd128a11757f4d6289d3c6f694bad3bc2020-11-24T21:17:01ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182013-06-011010.4000/erea.3062Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The GirlBeth WIDMAIER CAPOThis article examines Kay Boyle’s Process (1925, published 2001) and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl (1939, published 1978) as modernist female bildungsromans. Specifically, the paper will analyze the intersection of the sexualized female body with physical place and geography to situate the protagonists’ conflicts of alienation and belonging. Le Sueur’s “Girl” and Boyle’s “Kerith” negotiate home-space, workplace, and the urban landscapes of St. Paul (Minnesota) and Cincinnati (Ohio) respectively in these stylistically Modernist coming-of-age narratives.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3062Kay BoyleProcessMeridel Le SueurThe Girlbildungsromancity
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Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
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Process
Meridel Le Sueur
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bildungsroman
city
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title Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
title_short Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
title_full Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
title_fullStr Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
title_full_unstemmed Modern Girls in the Midwestern City: Kay Boyle’s Process and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
title_sort modern girls in the midwestern city: kay boyle’s process and meridel le sueur’s the girl
publisher Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
series E-REA
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publishDate 2013-06-01
description This article examines Kay Boyle’s Process (1925, published 2001) and Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl (1939, published 1978) as modernist female bildungsromans. Specifically, the paper will analyze the intersection of the sexualized female body with physical place and geography to situate the protagonists’ conflicts of alienation and belonging. Le Sueur’s “Girl” and Boyle’s “Kerith” negotiate home-space, workplace, and the urban landscapes of St. Paul (Minnesota) and Cincinnati (Ohio) respectively in these stylistically Modernist coming-of-age narratives.
topic Kay Boyle
Process
Meridel Le Sueur
The Girl
bildungsroman
city
url http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3062
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