The Cambridge Companion to H. D.

An overview of this important early twentieth-century female writer's work and career and her contribution to the development of modernism.

Nephie J. Christodoulides (Edited by), Polina Mackay (Edited by)

9780521769082, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 October 2011

208 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm, 0.46 kg

"H.D.'s reputation has risen progressively over the last couple of decades; now, she takes her rightful place as a canonical modernist poet. Mackay (Univ. of Nicosia, Cyprus) and the late Christodoulides (university of Cyprus) offer a multidimensional view of H.D."
--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was one of the central figures in literary modernism in the 1910s. She collaborated with Ezra Pound and others and played an important role in the early development of modernist poetry. This Cambridge Companion is a critical introduction to H. D. containing essays on all her major works. The first part explores the author's initial exclusion from the canon and her subsequent reinstatement; her tendency to merge fact with fiction in her autobiographical texts; her contribution to the little magazines; her relation to modernism; her representation of gender; and her influence on later generations of writers. The second part offers close and accessible critical analyses of H. D.'s style, her poems Hymen and Trilogy, her novels HERmione and Majic Ring, her understanding of translation as literary practice and of her notion of history in Tribute to Freud and The Gift.

Chronology
Introduction Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay
Part I. Contexts and Issues: 1. 'Uncanonically seated': H. D. and literary canons Miranda B. Hickman
2. Facts and fictions Nephie J. Christodoulides
3. H. D. and the 'Little Magazines' Cyrena N. Pondrom
4. H. D.'s modernism Polina Mackay
5. H. D. and gender: queering the reading Georgia Johnston
6. Reading H. D.: influence and legacy Jo Gill
Part II. Works: 7. H. D.'s transformative poetics Diana Collecott
8. Hymen and Trilogy Sarah Graham
9. HERmione and other prose Matte Robinson and Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos
10. H. D. and translation Eileen Gregory
11. Reading history in The Gift and Tribute to Freud Brenda S. Helt
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]