The title of the volume captures the stark absence of the acknowledgement of Whiteness at the core of Anglophone Modernism and in Modernist Studies. What happens when a nation suddenly has “too many women”? After World War I, Britain’s 1921 census indicated there were two million more women than men in the population. Newspapers quickly began publishing letters and opinion pieces about the “problem” of Surplus Women—a generation of unmarried, middle-class women whose very existence was framed as a national crisis.

I have been tasked with introducing “Letters from the Field”, a new series of blog correspondences on doing modernist studies while living through climate change and calamities. “Letters from the Field” grows out of conversations that have taken place at online and in-person events organized by the MSA’s Modernism and the Environment special interest group (SIG) over the past

This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.

This monograph provides the first detailed exploration of middlebrow fiction on decolonisation by women writers.

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...