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Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism (2025)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism. In The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. Edinburgh University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Gertrude Stein’s early work, those short and abstract ‘portraits’ of friends and of ‘types’, has been often described as impressionist, post-impressionist, and even cubist. The word ‘portraits’, of course, invites a painterly comparison. Key to both... Read More about Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism.

Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life (2025)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life. In British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1900-1919. Vol IV. Palgrave Macmillan. Manuscript submitted for publication

Abstract: In May Sinclair’s novels The Three Sisters (1914) and Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) the heroines struggle with the constraints of family, religion and stifling morality; they feel both heredity and tradition to be a ‘net’ they are unable to g... Read More about Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life.

May Sinclair's Dialogic Tesserae (2024)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2024). May Sinclair's Dialogic Tesserae. In May Sinclair in her Time: Reappraising May Sinclair’s Role in Early-20th-Century Literature and Philosophy (173-193). Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée. https://doi.org/10.4000/12qgi

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). La Biblioteca De Carfax

Introduction to Spanish translation of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories

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.

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.

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).