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Nancy Cunard : perfect stranger / by Jane Marcus ; edited and with an introduction and afterword by Jean Mills.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Clemson : Clemson University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781949979305
  • 194997930X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nancy CunardDDC classification:
  • 821/.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6005.U46 Z657 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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

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