Introduction to the new feminists modernisms in the inaugural issue of Feminist Modernist Studies.

This essay explores the impact of Charles Darwin’s often poetic, largely geological travel narratives – the Diary and Voyage of the Beagle – on Elizabeth Bishop’s queered travel poems “Crusoe in England”(1976) and “Vague Poem”(circa 1973), in the context of recent feminist theory’s materialist ecological “turn.” I survey Bishop’s shift from h…[Read more]