{"product_id":"the-modernist-party-kate-mcloughlin-9780748647316","title":"The Modernist Party","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I really like the idea of treating the party as a site of modernist invention and contention.'\u003cbr\u003eSean Latham, University of Tulsa\u003cbr\u003e'Intriguing. There should be more fun in Modernist Studies.'\u003cbr\u003eDavid Trotter, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003eLeading international scholars illuminate the party's significance in Modernism\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ein extremis \u003c\/i\u003ein D H Lawrence's \u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eLike 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate McLoughlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748647317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748647316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2013","brand":"Kate McLoughlin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086798237951,"sku":"9780748647316","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c897653-c8bd-4e25-9d61-92d8aa2145ee.jpg?v=1769096644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-modernist-party-kate-mcloughlin-9780748647316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}