The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell - by Allan Pero & Gyllian Phillips (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this first full-length assessment of Edith Sitwell to appear in forty-five years, the contributors argue strongly to establish Sitwell firmly in the center of British modernism. The essays here trace her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, and avant-garde art and performance to analyze the ways in which her literary production and social networks fostered an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity and to suggest new ways of understanding the English interwar arts culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <i>The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell</i> 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. <b>Contributors: </b> Melissa Bradshaw - Marsha Bryant - Richard Greene - Deborah Longworth - Emily McCann - Laura Richardson<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A resourceful and well-put-together collection. . . . Contributors engage with Sitwell's transgressive and unclassifiable modernism."--<i><b>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Allan Pero</b> is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. <b>Gyllian Phillips</b> is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.
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