Background
Kristin Bluemel was born on December 22, 1964, in Urbana, Illinois, United States to the family of Van F. W. and Paulette Burr (maiden name, Kling) Bluemel. Her father is a professor of physics and mother is a guidance counselor.
Kristin Bluemel studied at Wesleyan University for her Bachelor of Arts degree, which she graduated in 1986.
Bluemel continued her education at Rutgers University for a Master of Arts degree, which she obtained in 1991.
Bluemel continued her education at Rutgers University for a Doctor of Philosophy degree, which she obtained in 1994.
(As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream o...)
As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream of consciousness" as a narrative technique, Dorothy Richardson ranks among modernism's most important experimentalists, yet her epic autobiographical novel Pilgrimage has rarely received the kind of attention given to the writings of her contemporaries James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. Kristin Bluemel's study explores the relationship between experimental forms and oppositional politics in Pilgrimage, demonstrating how the novel challenged the literary conventions and cultural expectations of the late-Victorian and Edwardian world and linking these relationships to the novel's construction of a lesbian sexuality, its use of medicine to interrogate class structures, its feminist critique of early-twentieth-century science, and Richardson's short stories and nonfiction.
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1997
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George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of a group of four 'radical eccentrics' - the Tory anarchist poet Stevie Smith, the Marxist Indian nationalist Mulk Raj Anand, and the glamour-girl-turned-socialist Inez Holden - who formed a friendly circle around the famously radical and eccentric George Orwell. Demonstrating that Smith, Anand, and Holden matter for literary history just as they mattered for Orwell, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics gives name and shape to a neglected movement within interwar and wartime English writing. It focuses on the lives and texts of Smith, Anand, and Holden in order to argue that these three writers throw into question limiting assumptions about art and politics-about standard relations between literary form and sex, gender, race, class, and empire-in ways that their group's most influential radical, Orwell, cannot. Embarking upon a kind of biographical-political-cultural-literary criticism, this book brings the radical eccentrics' vital, potentially transformative conversation to the attention of scholars of English literature for the first time, suggesting fascinating new approaches to the study of literary London during the thirties and forties.
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2004
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These 10 original critical essays examine the fascinating writing of the Depression and World War II. Divided into four sections - Work, Community, War, and Documents - the volume focuses on texts that are typically ignored in accounts of modernism or The Auden Generation. Chapters examine writing by Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, William Empson, George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, Harold Heslop, T. H. White, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, John Grierson, Margery Allingham and Stella Gibbons. These authors were politically radical, or radically 'eccentric', and tended to be committed to working- and middle-class cultures, non-canonical genres, such as crime and fantasy, and minority forms of narrative, such as journalism, manifestos, film, and travel narratives, as well as novels. The volume supports further research with an appendix, 'Who Were the Intermodernists?', a listing of archival sources and an extensive bibliography.
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2009
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Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much - if not more - than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them? Essays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.
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2018
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Kristin Bluemel was born on December 22, 1964, in Urbana, Illinois, United States to the family of Van F. W. and Paulette Burr (maiden name, Kling) Bluemel. Her father is a professor of physics and mother is a guidance counselor.
Kristin Bluemel studied at Wesleyan University for her Bachelor of Arts degree, which she graduated in 1986. Later Bluemel continued her education at Rutgers University for a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees, which she obtained in 1991 and in 1994.
After graduating as a Bachelor in 1991 Bluemel started working as a Teaching Assistant at Rutgers and Douglass Colleges of Rutgers University. She held this position until in 1994 she became a Doctor of Philosophy and was accepted to Monmouth University as an Assistant Professor of English. At Monmouth University she was promoted to Associate Professor of English in 2000 and to Professor of English in 2007. Since 2011 up to 2019 she also held there a position of Wayne D. McMurray-Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities. Her professional interests are twentieth-century British literature and critical and cultural theory. Bluemel has produced a number of books on this topic. The first one Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage was published in 1997.
(As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream o...)
1997(George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the l...)
2004(Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of...)
2018(These 10 original critical essays examine the fascinating...)
2009
British Association for Modernist Studies , United Kingdom
Modernist Studies Association , United States
Modern Language Association , United States
Society for History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing , United States
Children’s Literature Association , United States
The Space Between: Society for the Study of Literature and Culture
Kristin Bluemel married George Merrill Witte on June 28, 1997.