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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.
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