Nancy Cunard : perfect stranger /
Marcus, Jane,
Nancy Cunard : perfect stranger / by Jane Marcus ; edited and with an introduction and afterword by Jean Mills. - First edition. - 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Editor's Introduction: Scholarship's Afterlife: The Return of Rage -- Introduction to the Original Text -- I Outlaws: The Making of the Woman Poet as Perfect Stranger -- 1 The Cunard Line: A Poet's Progress, 1925 -- 2 The Artist as Antichrist: Thamar, the Demon Lover -- 3 Between Men: Eliot, Pound, and Fresca -- II Poetry, War, and Primitivism: Making Modern Life -- 4 The Rites of Spring -- 5 Girlfriends, Boyfriends, and Bright Young Things -- III Grands Hommes: Fabricating a Father 6 Closet Autobiography: Bones and Stones -- 7 White Nympholepsy: George Moore, Manet, and the Modern -- 8 Intellectual Nomads: Norman Douglas, the Desert, and the Taste for Space -- IV Translating Africa: The Negro Anthology -- 9 White Women, Black Books: The Negro Anthology and Sylvia Leith-Ross's African Women -- V Reporting War: The Journalism -- 10 Nanción's Cancións: Nancy Cunard and the Spanish Civil War -- 11 Race on the Wire: Nancy Cunard's War Stories -- End Notes: An Afterword -- Notes -- Index
"In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and "sexually dangerous New Woman," offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to twenty-first-century considerations of gender, race, and class"--
9781949979305 194997930X
2020012564
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
1900-1999
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Women political activists--England--Biography.
Women journalists--England--Biography.
Authors, English.
Women journalists.
Women political activists.
England.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
PR6005.U46 / Z657 2020
821/.912
Nancy Cunard : perfect stranger / by Jane Marcus ; edited and with an introduction and afterword by Jean Mills. - First edition. - 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Editor's Introduction: Scholarship's Afterlife: The Return of Rage -- Introduction to the Original Text -- I Outlaws: The Making of the Woman Poet as Perfect Stranger -- 1 The Cunard Line: A Poet's Progress, 1925 -- 2 The Artist as Antichrist: Thamar, the Demon Lover -- 3 Between Men: Eliot, Pound, and Fresca -- II Poetry, War, and Primitivism: Making Modern Life -- 4 The Rites of Spring -- 5 Girlfriends, Boyfriends, and Bright Young Things -- III Grands Hommes: Fabricating a Father 6 Closet Autobiography: Bones and Stones -- 7 White Nympholepsy: George Moore, Manet, and the Modern -- 8 Intellectual Nomads: Norman Douglas, the Desert, and the Taste for Space -- IV Translating Africa: The Negro Anthology -- 9 White Women, Black Books: The Negro Anthology and Sylvia Leith-Ross's African Women -- V Reporting War: The Journalism -- 10 Nanción's Cancións: Nancy Cunard and the Spanish Civil War -- 11 Race on the Wire: Nancy Cunard's War Stories -- End Notes: An Afterword -- Notes -- Index
"In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and "sexually dangerous New Woman," offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to twenty-first-century considerations of gender, race, and class"--
9781949979305 194997930X
2020012564
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
1900-1999
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Women political activists--England--Biography.
Women journalists--England--Biography.
Authors, English.
Women journalists.
Women political activists.
England.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
PR6005.U46 / Z657 2020
821/.912