All Outputs (17)

Two Good Soldiers: Ford Madox Ford and May Sinclair (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler, R. (2023). Two Good Soldiers: Ford Madox Ford and May Sinclair. Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, 1(2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1353/cusp.2023.a902868

22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). 22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion. In The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (358-370). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474494793-025

Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2023). Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot. Modernism/modernity, 30(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a902605

This article examines two of Claude McKay’s novels, Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) with relation to their characters’ complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory attitude to food cultures. McKay’s characters demonstr... Read More about Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot.

Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito. In May Sinclair; Cuentos de lo insólito. (1). Spain: La Biblioteca De Carfax

Introduction to Spanish translation of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories

May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte. Feminist Modernist Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2020.1850146

This article surveys May Sinclair’s writing on the Brontë sisters in order to chart her revisionist impulse with relation to their reputation, her anxiety about her own literary reputation, genius in women and intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue t... Read More about May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte.

One Hundred Years of the Stream of Consciousness: Editors’ Introduction (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). One Hundred Years of the Stream of Consciousness: Editors’ Introduction. Literature Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12570

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The ‘Fountain of Consciousness Novel’: Dorothy Richardson, Henri Bergson, Gustav Geley (2020)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2020). The ‘Fountain of Consciousness Novel’: Dorothy Richardson, Henri Bergson, Gustav Geley. In Literature and Modern Time (129-147). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_6

Feasts and Fasts: Towards a Modernist Food Studies (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). Feasts and Fasts: Towards a Modernist Food Studies. Modernism/modernity, 399-405. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2020.0029

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The Dental Record, Miscellany and the Mediator as Crank (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). The Dental Record, Miscellany and the Mediator as Crank. https://doi.org/10.2307/26868285

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May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (Ed. Rebecca Bowler) (2017)
Book
Bowler, R. (2017). R. Bowler, & C. Drewery (Eds.). May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (Ed. Rebecca Bowler). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415750.001.0001

This monograph brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair’s negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corpore... Read More about May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (Ed. Rebecca Bowler).

Wet Aesthetics Immersion versus the ‘perfect imbecility' of the Stream in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage 1 (2016)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R., & McCracken, S. (2016). Wet Aesthetics Immersion versus the ‘perfect imbecility' of the Stream in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage 1. In Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism

Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair (2016)
Book
Bowler, R. (2016). Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair. Bloomsbury Publishing

Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End (2016)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2016). Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End. In Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture : Modern and Contemporary Perspectives

THE CAST OF BACKWATER: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES (2015)
Journal Article
Bowler, R., & Overrill, C. (2015). THE CAST OF BACKWATER: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Pilgrimages: The Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies,

Pot-boilers or “Glimpses” of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story (2015)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2015). Pot-boilers or “Glimpses” of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story. In British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman To Now (50 - 65)

‘“I wish I had a really stunning dress”: Fashion, Poverty, and Performance in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage’ (2015)
Journal Article
Bowler, R. (2015). ‘“I wish I had a really stunning dress”: Fashion, Poverty, and Performance in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage’. Pilgrimages: The Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies,

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‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’ (2011)
Journal Article
Bowler, R. (2011). ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, https://doi.org/10.3366/kms.2011.0008

This article examines Katherine Mansfield's aesthetics and attitude to the relation between what she called ‘life’ and work, the visual and the intellectual. It emphasises doubleness both in Mansfield's selves and in her aesthetics, a doubleness whic... Read More about ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’.