H. D. And the Victorian Fin De Siecle - Gender, Modernism, Decadence

Klappentext H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues foremost that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy'. Zusammenfassung H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues foremost that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy' and 'personality' by embracing the very cults of personality in the Decadent Romanticism of Oscar Wilde! A. C. Swinburne! Walter Pater and D. G. Rossetti that her male contemporaries most deplored. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: Dramatis Personae: The Aesthete Androgyne and the Femme Fatale; 1. The Rhetoric of Anti-Romanticism: gendered genealogies of male modernism; 2. H. D.'s Early Decadent Masks and Images: HER; Sea Garden; Part I. The Aesthete Androgyne: 3. Writing the Decadent Boy Androgyne: Whiteness, Diaphaneite, Poikilia and Male Statuary; 4. Across Gender, across Sexuality: H. D.'s male masking and the sexual narrative: Hippolytus Temporarizes, 'Heliodroa'; Part II. The Femme Fatale: 5. Towards a Revised Myth of Origins: from the diaphanous androgyne to the abject femme fatale; 6. From Agon to 'Heros Fatale': Pre-Raphaelite transformations of male modernism/modernity; 7. Feminine Abjection and Trilogy; Postscript; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Cassandra Laity, Cassandra (Drew University Laity
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1996
• EAN: 9780521554145
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55414-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies