{"product_id":"literary-liaisons-auto-biographical-appropriations-in-modernist-womens-fiction-hardback-9780875803012","title":"Literary Liaisons; Auto\/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction (Hardback) 9780875803012","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiterary Liaisons\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAuto\/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLynette Felber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875803012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 September 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and women's literature.\"—Holly Laird, University of Tulsa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnhappy relationships are the stuff of fiction-or so Lynette Felber observes as she examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Ana\\u00efs Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and H.D., she investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction. Whether heterosexual or lesbian, these women struggled to assert the authority of their own literary voices and to achieve professional recognition distinct from their partners. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The modernist period, when British and American women first began to exercise their newly granted political rights, provides a particularly interesting backdrop for this study of literary appropriation. Using feminist and psychoanalytical theory, Felber views these emerging authors' fictionalized struggles as reenactments of the process by which the self differentiates itself from the Other. The literary liaison is the site where the female writer's professional identity is enacted, contested, and finally empowered or suppressed. As she examines the impact of literary relationships on modernist women writers, Felber reveals their preoccupation with attaining the status of \"subject.\" \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The writers discussed in Literary Liaisons are well known for their various work-Rebecca West for her journalism, Ana\\u00efs Nin for her erotica, H.D. for her imagist poetry-as well as for their associations with such celebrated partners as H. G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry Miller. The conflicts reflected in the five modernist women's writings stir a voyeuristic curiosity about the autobiographical truths that may lurk behind every fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction-\"Books Not of the Imagination\" \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Many Faces of June-Ana\\u00efs Nin's Appropriation of Feminine Writing \u003cbr\u003e 2. Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca West's Sunflower \u003cbr\u003e 3. Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz-Household Plagiarism and Other Crimes of the Heart \u003cbr\u003e 4. Accomodation in Radclyffe Hall's The Forge \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Writer Self in H.D.'s Auto\/biographical Fiction \u003cbr\u003e Afterword-Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584740913432,"sku":"9780875803012","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literary-liaisons-auto-biographical-appropriations-in-modernist-womens-fiction-hardback-9780875803012","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}