H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950

by Diana Collecott

Book Overview

The American poet H. D. (1886-1961) is increasingly being recognized as a key figure in the shaping of Anglo-American modernism, and this study attempts to emphasize her position, against the well-established claims of writers such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The study is grounded in questions of sexuality, gender and the nature of subjectivity and H. D.'s interest in Hellenism. The development of a homoerotic strand within her distinctively modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521101832
• ISBN13: 9780521101837
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"