Sapphic PrimitivismIn this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a literary device that she calls Sapphic primitivism. The works vary widely in their form and content and include Olive Schreiners proto modernist exploration of New Womanhood, The Story of an African Farm; Virginia Woolfs high modernist play poem, The Waves; Sylvia Townsend Warners historical novel, Summer Will