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... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of the fiction of the first three decades of the twentieth century. -- Novel ... her readings of texts are quite smart and eminently readable. -- Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature... a challenging and discerning study of the modernist period. -- James Joyce Broadsheet (note: review of volume 1 only)... highly important and beautifully written, constructing a contextually rich cultural history of Anglo-American modernism. It wears its meticulous erudition lightly, synthesizing an enormous amount of research, much of it original archival work. -- SignsThrough her thoughtful exploration of the lives and work of these three female modernists, Scott shapes a new feminist literary history that successfully reconfigures modernism. -- Woolf Studies AnnualIn this revisionary study of modernism, Bonnie Kime Scott focuses on the literary and cultural contexts that shaped Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes. Her reading is based upon fresh archival explorations, combining postmodern with feminist theory.
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English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain, Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century, Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century, Women and literature--Great Britain-
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1995
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English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain, Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century, Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century, Women and literature--Great Britain-
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BONNIE KIME SCOTT
Refiguring Modernism
VOLUME ONE
The Women of 1928
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis
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1995 by Bonnie Kime Scott
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Scott, Bonnie Kime, date Refiguring modernism / Bonnie Kime Scott. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. Contents: v. 1. The Women of 1928v. 2. Postmodern feminist readings of Woolf, West, and Barnes. ISBN 0-253-32936-1 (v. 1 : cl : alk. paper).ISBN 0-253-20995-1 (v. 1 : pa : alk. paper).ISBN 0-253-32937-X (v. 2 : cl : alk. paper).ISBN 0-253-21002-X (v. 2 : pa : alk. paper)
1. English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism.
2. Modernism (Literature)Great Britain. 3. Feminism and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th century. 4. Feminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 5. Women and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th century. 6. Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 7. Woolf, Virginia, 18821941Criticism and interpretation. 8. West, Rebecca, Dame, 1892Criticism and interpretation. 9. Barnes, DjunaCriticism and interpretation. 10. Modernism (Literature)United States. I. Title. PR888.M63S43 1995 823'.91099287dc20 95-3579
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For Tom my lasting attachment and in search of Bhima
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
xv
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
1.
(Dys)functional Families
3
2.
Edwardian Uncles
19
3.
Stretching the Scope of Suffrage
35
4.
Midwives of Modernism
55
PART TWO: THE MEN OF 1914
5.
Ezra Pound: Plunging Headlong into Female Chaos
84
6.
Wyndham Lewis: Above the Line of Messy Femininity
100
7.
T. S. Eliot: Playing Possum
113
8.
James Joyce: Halting Female Pens with Ulysses
145
9.
Lawrence, Forster, and Bloomsbury: Male Modernist Others
162
PART THREE: THE WOMEN OF 1928
10.
Arranging Marriages, Partners, and Spaces
187
11.
Becoming Professionals
209
12.
Rallying round The Well of Loneliness
242
Bibliography
289
Index
309
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Acknowledgments
I should like to thank the following institutions for access to their collections and permission to quote from manuscripts and reproduce images: BBC Written Archives Centre for quotations from letters by Christopher Salmon and Charles Bridge; British Library for letters of Rebecca West to George Bernard Shaw (Add MS 50519 f 228 and 50522 ff 169172) and a letter from Shaw to West (Add MS 50518 ff 211213) in the Shaw papers; Muse Carnavalet, Paris, for Romaine Brooks's painting of Natalie Barney; Cornell University Library for a photo of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West; University of Delaware Library, Newark, for letters of Emily Coleman and Djuna Barnes and a photograph of Coleman in the Emily Coleman Papers; Jacques Doucet Library for letters of Djuna Barnes and Natalie Barney in its Natalie Barney Collection; The Houghton Library, Harvard University, for a letter of Rebecca West to Alexander Woollcott (bMS Am 1449 (485)(494)); House of Lords Record Office for letters of Rebecca West and Lord Beaverbrook in the Beaverbrook Collection; Special Collections, University of Maryland at College Park Libraries (cited in this volume as Maryland), for letters and drawings of Djuna Barnes and drawings by Thelma Wood in the Papers of Djuna Barnes, for a photograph of Zadel Barnes Gustafson in the Barnes Family Papers, and for drawings by Thelma Wood in the Papers of Saxon Barnes; The National Portrait Gallery for a photograph of Virginia Woolf (NPG P221) and a Wyndham Lewis sketch of Rebecca West (NPG 5693); The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations for letters by T.S. Eliot and John Quinn in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection; The Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, for letters of Rebecca West in Box 1, Folder 26 of the Dora Marsden Collection (cited in this volume as Princeton) and a photograph of Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy; University of Reading Library for letters of Leonard Woolf and Rebecca West in its Hogarth Press and Jonathan Cape collections; The Manuscripts Section, University of Sussex Library, for letters of Clive Bell and Leonard Woolf and scrapbooks in the Monk's House Papers; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin for letters of Rebecca
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