The many facades of Edith Sitwell
In this first full-length assessment of Edith Sitwell to appear in forty-five years, the contributors argue strongly to establish Sitwell firmly in the center of British modernism. The essays here trace her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, and avant-garde art and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida
[2017]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37531098*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips
- The Sitwells and Sitwellism: an ornamental modernism / Deborah Longworth
- A stranger's conversations with life: Edith Sitwell and the problems of biography / Richard Greene
- "The apotheosis of Edith": artifice and noblesse oblige in Cecil Beaton's portraits of the Sitwell siblings / Melissa Bradshaw
- "Sunshades will usurp their space": Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, and the dreaming clowns of melancholy / Allan Pero
- Sitwell beyond the semiotic: gender, race, and empire in facade / Marsha Bryant
- "Glittering like the wind": Edith Sitwell's female poetry / Gyllian Phillips
- Edith Sitwell's critical self-doubling / Laura Richardson
- Gothic futures: Edith Sitwell and women's labor in interwar British modernism / Emily McCann.
