Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” of THE WASTE LAND? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”
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2019-06-05Author
Wilson, Aimee Armande
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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This essay reveals a flaw in the critical consensus that regards Ezra Pound as the intellectual “midwife” of THE WASTE LAND, a metaphor used so frequently over the last century it has become a critical commonplace. By detailing the various ways that Pound’s use of reproductive language was drawn from a contemporaneous medical debate about midwifery – a hitherto unrecognized influence – this essay provides a fuller understanding of the rhetoric Pound used to discredit female writers and editors, while also highlighting the importance of feminist attention to the critical conversation itself.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Modernist Studies on June 5, 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/24692921.2019.1622173 .
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Aimee Armande Wilson (2019) Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” of THE WASTE LAND? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”, Feminist Modernist Studies, 2:2, 212-231, DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2019.1622173
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