H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence

by Cassandra Laity

Book Overview

H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Si?cle argues that the twentieth-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the feminine personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as effeminate. The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role reversal on a modernist woman writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052110789X
• ISBN13: 9780521107891
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"