{"id":128560,"date":"2017-07-20T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=128560"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:21:56","slug":"scanlon-publishes-essay-modernist-writer-rebecca-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2017\/07\/20\/scanlon-publishes-essay-modernist-writer-rebecca-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanlon Publishes Essay on Modernist Writer Rebecca West"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Mara Scanlon&rsquo;s essay &ldquo;Gender Identity and Promiscuous Identification: Reading (in) Rebecca West&rsquo;s <em>The Return of the Soldier<\/em>&rdquo; was recently published in <em>The Journal of Modern Literature. <\/em> The article focuses on the frequently overlooked narrator of West&rsquo;s novel, set on the home front in the First World War. Scanlon interprets Jenny as an embedded reader of the novel&rsquo;s main plot, a love triangle precipitated by a shell-shocked soldier&rsquo;s amnesia, which Jenny&rsquo;s own complicated desire further tangles. Positioned as such, Jenny breaches appropriate boundaries between herself and the &ldquo;characters&rdquo; of the main events, exhibiting a radical empathy called &ldquo;promiscuous identification,&rdquo; which finally troubles both her class and gender identity. Using theories of readership, Scanlon argues that Jenny&rsquo;s zealous identification as a reader finally challenges the novel&rsquo;s own stated moral and seemingly inevitable outcome, one dependent on a model of stable identity that Jenny radically undermines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Scanlon&rsquo;s essay &ldquo;Gender Identity and Promiscuous Identification: Reading (in) Rebecca West&rsquo;s The Return of the Soldier&rdquo; was recently published in The Journal of Modern Literature. The article focuses on the frequently overlooked narrator of West&rsquo;s novel, set on the home front in the First World War. Scanlon interprets Jenny as an embedded reader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28475,"featured_media":128561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[4841],"class_list":["post-128560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-mscanlon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}