The many facades of Edith Sitwell /edited by Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips.
The many facades of Edith Sitwell /edited by Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / The Sitwells and Sitwellism: an ornamental modernism / A stranger's conversations with life: Edith Sitwell and the problems of biography / "The apotheosis of Edith": artifice and noblesse oblige in Cecil Beaton's portraits of the Sitwell siblings / "Sunshades will usurp their space": Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, and the dreaming clowns of melancholy / Sitwell beyond the semiotic: gender, race, and empire in facade / "Glittering like the wind": Edith Sitwell's female poetry / Edith Sitwell's critical self-doubling / Gothic futures: Edith Sitwell and women's labor in interwar British modernism / Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips -- Deborah Longworth -- Richard Greene -- Melissa Bradshaw -- Allan Pero -- Marsha Bryant -- Gyllian Phillips -- Laura Richardson -- Emily McCann.
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 performance to analyze the ways in which her literary production and social networks fostered an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity and to suggest new ways of understanding the English interwar arts culture.
9780813052847
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Poets, English--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PR6037 / .M369 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / The Sitwells and Sitwellism: an ornamental modernism / A stranger's conversations with life: Edith Sitwell and the problems of biography / "The apotheosis of Edith": artifice and noblesse oblige in Cecil Beaton's portraits of the Sitwell siblings / "Sunshades will usurp their space": Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, and the dreaming clowns of melancholy / Sitwell beyond the semiotic: gender, race, and empire in facade / "Glittering like the wind": Edith Sitwell's female poetry / Edith Sitwell's critical self-doubling / Gothic futures: Edith Sitwell and women's labor in interwar British modernism / Allan Pero and Gyllian Phillips -- Deborah Longworth -- Richard Greene -- Melissa Bradshaw -- Allan Pero -- Marsha Bryant -- Gyllian Phillips -- Laura Richardson -- Emily McCann.
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 performance to analyze the ways in which her literary production and social networks fostered an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity and to suggest new ways of understanding the English interwar arts culture.
9780813052847
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Poets, English--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PR6037 / .M369 2017