I often read the scholarship that constitutes new modernist studies wondering, as Virginia Woolf’s narrator did in A Room of One’s Own, whether the author “has a pen in [their] hand or a pickaxe.” [1] For Woolf, an attention to pens and pickaxes derives from her acute understanding of anger and its potential to transform an author’s writing. For example, upon reading Professor von X’s account of mental, moral, and physical inferiority of the female sex, Woolf’s narrator is confronted by the...