The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell (Hardcover)

Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona that has too often overshadowed serious writing about her work, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell argues that Sitwell was crucial to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. With Sitwell as an influential literary player and social architect, the British interwar arts scene was not an ascetic escape from personality?as the modernism of Pound and Eliot has often been characterized?but an alternative space of flamboyant, extravagant, and ornate performance.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2017
Editors:	Allan Pero • Gyllian Phillips
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-5442-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8130-5442-7
Barcode:	9780813054421

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