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The Modernist party /

Leading international scholars explore the party's significance to Modernism Have you ever been struck by the number of parties in Modernist literature? Mrs. Ramsay drowns in anguish at the dinner-party she gives in Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Death is a guest in Katherine Mansfield's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McLoughlin, Catherine Mary, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: a welcome from the host / Kate McLoughlin
  • 'The dinner was indeed quiet': domestic parties in the work of Joseph Conrad / Susan Jones
  • Prufrock, party-goer: tongue-tied at tea / Kate McLoughlin
  • Party Joyce: from the 'Dead' t when we 'Wake' / Jean-Michel Rabaté
  • 'Looking at the party with you': pivotal moments in Katherine Mansfield's party stories / Angela Smith
  • Virginia Woolf's idea of a party / Bryony Randall
  • Proustian peristalsis: parties before, during and after / David R. Ellison
  • 'Ezra through the open door': the parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as lesbian modernist cultural production / Joanne Winning
  • 'Indeed everybody did come': parties, publicity and intimacy in Gertrude Stein's plays / Alex Goody
  • The interracial party of modernist primitivism and the black 'after-party' / Margo Natalie Crawford
  • The party in extremis in D.H. Lawrence's Women in love / Margot Norris
  • Bohemian retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, post-war memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club / Nathan Waddell
  • 'Pleasure too often repeated': Aldous Huxley's modernity / Morag Shiach.