Ritual, Myth, and Mysticism in the Work of Mary Butts: Between Feminism and Modernism
Roslyn, Foy, Foy, Roslyn
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HRLK2; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Mary Butts wrote and lived among notable modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, H.D., and Ezra Pound, and was on her way to becoming one of the most respected British female writers of the twentieth century. Yet, after her death in 1937 at the age of forty-six, her reputation suffered a decline. Butt's idiosyncratic spirituality did not lend itself to easy critical examination, modernism was generally considered a masculine endeavor, and her papers were not made public for over fifty years. The recent acquisition of those papers by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, however, ... Read more
Mary Butts wrote and lived among notable modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, H.D., and Ezra Pound, and was on her way to becoming one of the most respected British female writers of the twentieth century. Yet, after her death in 1937 at the age of forty-six, her reputation suffered a decline. Butt's idiosyncratic spirituality did not lend itself to easy critical examination, modernism was generally considered a masculine endeavor, and her papers were not made public for over fifty years. The recent acquisition of those papers by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, however, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557285812
SKU
V9781557285812
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About Roslyn, Foy, Foy, Roslyn
Roslyn Reso Foy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she is currently teaching twentieth-century British literature at the University of New Orleans. She has published numerous essays and papers, including an interview with Mary Butts's daughter, Camilla Bagg, which appeared in the International Review of Modernism in the fall of 1998.
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