Leading international scholars explore the party's significance to
Modernism. In 12 chapters internationally distinguished scholars
explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for
developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives
on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time.
There are chapters on Conrad and domestic parties, T S Eliot's
Prufrock, the party vector in Joyce's The Dead and Finnegans Wake,
Katherine Mansfield's party stories, Virginia Woolf's idea of a
party, the textual parties of Proust, Ford Madox Ford and Aldous
Huxley and the real life parties of Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier,
Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, the black 'after party' of the
Harlem Renaissance and the parties in extremis in D H Lawrence's
Women in Love. Like guests at a party, the chapters talk to and
argue with each other. They contribute different approaches:
formal, historical, thematic, biographical and theoretical. They
address gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and
privacy. And they establish critical viewpoints. The party is shown
to be the site both of introspection and self display. It provokes
competition, collaboration and violence. It is an occasion of
nihilism as well as a model for creative production. It develops
the concept of space, currently of central concern to Modernist
scholars. It explores the tensions between Modernism as aesthetics
of intensity and Modernism as a movement of the everyday. It also
adds a new and vital area of research to investigations of
Modernism as the product of intellectual and social networks.
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