The Modernist Party

Kate McLoughlin editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:5th Mar '13

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‘I really like the idea of treating the party as a site of modernist invention and contention.’ Sean Latham, University of Tulsa ‘Intriguing. There should be more fun in Modernist Studies.’ David Trotter, University of Cambridge Leading international scholars illuminate the party’s significance in 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.

Even the most cursory of glances over its contents reveals a substantial critical investment, on the part of editor...The volume certainly breaks new ground in the fields of material cultures, modernist networking, and space and place studies. -- Charlotte Charteris * Cambridge Quarterly Review, Vol. 43, no 2 *
This is terrific scholarship; it is stimulating, productive, and fun; and it suggests opportunities for many new and engaging approaches. -- Victoria Kuttainen * James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 51, Number 1 *
We read [the] text with the conviction that the writer or editor has a tale to tell, and a reason to tell this tale, which lends each text in turn a zestiness and a reason to read on. And in a critical space that is already crowded with texts tussling for our attention, this is a welcome surprise. -- Tara Stubbs, University of Oxford * Journal of American Studies / Volume 49 / Issue 03 *
‘I really like the idea of treating the party as a site of modernist invention and contention.’Sean Latham, University of Tulsa‘Intriguing. There should be more fun in Modernist Studies.’David Trotter, University of Cambridge * Sean Latham, University of Tulsa; David Trotter, University of Cambridge *
‘I really like the idea of treating the party as a site of modernist invention and contention.’Sean Latham, University of Tulsa‘Intriguing. There should be more fun in Modernist Studies.’David Trotter, University of Cambridge * Sean Latham, University of Tulsa; David Trotter, University of Cambridge *

ISBN: 9780748647316

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 504g

240 pages