H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521554145)

H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle argues that the twentieth-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the "feminine" personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as "effeminate." The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role reversal on a modernist woman writer.

Author: Cassandra Laity
ISBN-10: 0521554144
ISBN-13: 9780521554145
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1996
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d