Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place

by Andrew Radford

Overview

Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war modernist circles and one who reviewed and associated with some of the major literary figures of the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite her importance and the varied nature of her writing, she has been a neglected figure in modernist scholarship. Providing a new analysis of the interwar literary period, Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism revisits her work - vividly experimental writings spanning memoir, poetry, polemic and fiction - through the lens of mid-20th-century British neo-Romanticism. The book argues that behind Butts's eco-feminist writings lies an intricate political and philosophical commentary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441106438
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	08/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Andrew Radford teaches British and American Literature at the University of York, UK.
Andrew Radford is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Rescue of Romanticism? Landscaping the Mystic Self in The Crystal Cabinet
2. Ashe of Rings: Subverting the 'Country House' Genre
3. The Taverner Novels and the Secret History of Albion
4. 'Another Kind of Seeing': Re-visioning the Historical Novel
5. The Bohemian Borders of Modernism in the Short Stories
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

The book does much more, however, than recover a 'forgotten' woman writer; it expertly excavates a broad historical and cultural terrain, including visual art, high modernist debates about art, and surrealist archaeological theory.

The Review of English Studies

The book does much more, however, than recover a 'forgotten' woman writer; it expertly excavates a broad historical and cultural terrain, including visual art, high modernist debates about art, and surrealist archaeological theory.” —The Review of English Studies

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