Modernist Poetics of Ageing - The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.d

About the author

Jade Elizabeth French works on ageing, care, and intergenerationality in modern and contemporary literature. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Loughborough University, developing a project on emotions, ageing, and care homes in post-war British novels since 1948. In 2021-2022, she was a Research Associate as part of the ESRC-funded project Reimagining the Future in Older Age. Jade is also the co-founder of the interdisciplinary arts project Decorating Dissidence, which explores the conceptual, aesthetic, and political qualities of craft from the twentieth century to today.

Summary

What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D. answers this question by being the first book-length study of three late modernist women's writers.

Product details

• Authors: Jade Elizabeth French, Jade Elizabeth (Early Career Research Fell French
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198919971
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891997-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary