H. D. & Bryher An Untold Love Story of Modernism

by McCabe, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780190621223
• ISBN10: 0190621222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in 1918, H.D. was a modernist poet, married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and pregnant by another man. She fell in love with Bryher, who was entrapped by her wealthy secretive family. Their bond grew over Greek poetry, geography, ancient history and literature, the telegraph, and telepathy. They felt their love-and their true identities existed invisibly- a giddy, and disturbing element to their relationship; they lived off and on in distant geographies, though in near continual contact. This book exposes why literary history has occluded this love story of the world wars and poetic modernism.

Author Biography

Susan McCabe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film (2009)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Dramatis Personae

The Voyage Out 1886-1915
Chapter 1 The Meeting: "We Too" and Modernism
Chapter 2 H.D.'s Ancestral Circle
Chapter 3 Bryher's Family Closet
LINE 1 FLORIDE 1909-1919
Chapter 4 Sentimental Educations
Chapter 5 Love & Art: Being Phantoms Together
Chapter 6 Romance of Rescue & "The Jellyfish Experience"
LINE 2 BORODINO 1920-1928
Chapter 7 Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 . . .
Chapter 8 Questing America & Marianne Moore
Chapter 9 Inconvenient Marriages & Wanderlust
Chapter 10 Cinematics: We Three
LINE 3: PSYCHOANALYSIS 1929-1939
Chapter 11 Film Morphing into Borderline
Chapter 12 Enter Freud: Dreaming through the Houses
Chapter 13 Death Drive & "the Perfect Bi"
Chapter 14 "Group Consciousness" & ION
Chapter 15 Abdication, Aggression, Anschluss
LINE 4: Blitz 1939-1945
Chapter 16 Twilight Zone & "the combined UNK"
Chapter 17 Walls Falling & the Drive Inward
Chapter 18 S?ance Nights
Chapter 19 THE WRITING ON THE WALL
LINE 5: Viking 1946-1961 . . . . . . .
Chapter 20 Losing One's Mind to Find It
Chapter 21 Tidying up Modernism
Chapter 22 Cold War Romances
Chapter 23 Recovery & Illuminations 1953-

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