Literary Liaisons: Auto/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction

Description: Literary Liaisons by Lynette Felber This work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Unhappy relationships are the stuff of fiction-or so Lynette Felber observes as she examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anau00efs Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and H.D., she investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction. Whether heterosexual or lesbian, these women struggled to assert the authority of their own literary voices and to achieve professional recognition distinct from their partners. The modernist period, when British and American women first began to exercise their newly granted political rights, provides a particularly interesting backdrop for this study of literary appropriation. Using feminist and psychoanalytical theory, Felber views these emerging authors fictionalized struggles as reenactments of the process by which the self differentiates itself from the Other. The literary liaison is the site where the female writers professional identity is enacted, contested, and finally empowered or suppressed. As she examines the impact of literary relationships on modernist women writers, Felber reveals their preoccupation with attaining the status of "subject." The writers discussed in Literary Liaisons are well known for their various work-Rebecca West for her journalism, Anau00efs Nin for her erotica, H.D. for her imagist poetry-as well as for their associations with such celebrated partners as H. G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry Miller. The conflicts reflected in the five modernist womens writings stir a voyeuristic curiosity about the autobiographical truths that may lurk behind every fiction. Author Biography Lynette Felber, author of Gender and Genre in Novels without End: The British Roman-Fleuve, is editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Clio. She is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Table of Contents Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction—"Books Not of the Imagination" 1. The Many Faces of June—Ana\u00efs Nins Appropriation of Feminine Writing 2. Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca Wests Sunflower 3. Zelda Fitzgeralds Save Me the Waltz—Household Plagiarism and Other Crimes of the Heart 4. Accomodation in Radclyffe Halls The Forge 5. The Writer Self in H.D.s Auto/biographical Fiction Afterword—Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration Notes Works Cited Index Review "Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and womens literature."—Holly Laird, University of Tulsa Review Quote "Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and womens literature."-Holly Laird, University of Tulsa Details ISBN0875803016 Author Lynette Felber Language English ISBN-10 0875803016 ISBN-13 9780875803012 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2002 Short Title LITERARY LIAISONS Imprint Northern Illinois University Press Subtitle Auto/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Womens Fiction Place of Publication Dekalb, IL Country of Publication United States Birth 1951 Pages 246 DOI 10.1604/9780875803012 UK Release Date 2002-09-23 AU Release Date 2002-09-23 NZ Release Date 2002-09-23 US Release Date 2002-09-23 Publisher Cornell University Press Publication Date 2002-09-23 DEWEY 809.89287 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159736154;

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