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Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality affect and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major works of the period's most 'famous unknown'.

Modernism (Literature) --- Barnes, Djuna --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Modernism (Literature). --- American --- General. --- Barnes, Djuna, --- Barnes, Djuna.

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"Allen's book will . . . provide the categories that will deepen our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction." --Lesbian Review of Books"Barnes scholars will . . . want to pick up Carolyn Allen's new book, for it not only offers perceptive readings of Nightwood and the "Little Girl" stories . . . , but traces the example of Barnes's exploration of lesbian power and loss in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Rebecca Brown, and the underrated Bertha Harris." --Review of Contemporary Fiction" . . . fascinating . . . [a] fine volume . . . " --Choice"Following Djunais a fascinating analysis of the textual erotics and lyrical seductions of the work of Djuna Barnes and the writers she influences. This scintillating genealogy of lesbian intertextuality . . . expands the field of lesbian and feminist literary inquiry and concepts of lesbian literary production." --Judith Roof"As lesbian literary history, here is an instant classic." --Jane Marcus"This is an important and necessary book; even further, speaking as an admirer of the writers and literary works it discusses and as a personal expert on lost love, I find Following Djunairrestible." --Karen Helfrich, Lambda Book ReportCarolyn Allen argues for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics--emotional and sexual exchanges between women.

BARNES, DJUNA, 1892-1982 --- LESBIANS' WRITINGS --- AMERICAN FICTION --- ENGLISH FICTION --- EROTIC STORIES --- HOMOSEXUALITY IN LITERATURE --- LOSS (PSYCHOLOGY) --- WOMEN IN LITERATURE --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS --- Barnes, Djuna, 1892-1982 --- Lesbians' Writings --- American Fiction --- English Fiction --- Erotic Stories --- Homosexuality In Literature --- Loss (Psychology) --- Women In Literature --- Literary Criticism --- Family & Relationships --- Barnes, djuna, 1892-1982 --- Lesbians' writings --- American fiction --- English fiction --- Erotic stories --- Homosexuality in literature --- Loss (psychology) --- Women in literature --- Literary criticism --- Family & relationships

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This insightful volume extends feminist critical studies of twentieth-century women writers as it examines the complex ways female subjectivity experiences and is shaped by gender and power in literary texts. Because of the ways ambivalence and contradiction operate in the works of Woolf, Barnes, and Duras, to read them is to able to interrogate and thus more fully understand the ways our own subjectivity are constructed in relation to complex configurations of desire, loss, sexuality, power, vulnerability, and violence. Kaivola has worked out a strikingly original means of reading difference-

Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Women and literature -- History -- 20th century. --- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

Nomads in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- Barnes, Djuna --- Bowles, Jane, --- Auer, Jane Sydney, --- Bowles, Jane Auer, --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nomads in literature --- Exiles in literature --- Modernism (Literature)

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This work explores the relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the US welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home.

American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Politics and literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Literature and society --- Public welfare --- Grotesque in literature. --- Welfare state in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- United States --- Grotesque in literature --- Welfare state in literature --- Barnes, Djuna --- Toomer, Jean --- Ferber, Edna --- Olsen, Tillie