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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'.

Literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Modernism (Literature). --- American --- General. --- Barnes, Djuna --- Barnes, Djuna, --- Barnes, Djuna. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Modernism (Literature)

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Anti-Nazi movement in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- English fiction --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Isherwood, Christopher, --- Barnes, Djuna --- Woolf, Virginia, --- 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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In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as "the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside." Hannah Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing offers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein's first novel Q.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall's Adam's Breed and The Well of Loneliness, and Barnes's early writing alongside Nightwood.Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the "straight" traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research, The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.

Lesbians' writings, American --- Lesbians' writings, English --- English lesbians' writings --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Stein, Gertrude, --- Hall, Radclyffe --- Barnes, Djuna --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lady of fashion, --- Steptoe, Lydia --- בארנס, דז׳ונה --- Hall, John, --- Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe --- Radclyffe-Hall, Marguerite --- Staĭn, Gertruda, --- Stein, Gertruda,

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Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish characters in women's fiction between the World Wars. Focusing mainly on British modernism, it argues that female authors enlist a multifaceted vision of Jewishness to help them shape fictions that are thematically daring and formally experimental. Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and motifs that Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Richardson, and Djuna Barnes associate with Jewishness. The writers' simultaneous identification with and distancing from Jews produced complex portrayals in which Jews serve at times as models for the authors' art, and at times as foils against which their writing is defined. By examining the political and literary power of Semitic discourse for these key women authors, Linett fills a significant gap in the account of the cultural and literary forces that shaped modernism.

Jewish religion --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Thematology --- English literature: authors --- Richardson, Dorothy M. --- Warner, Sylvia Townsend --- Rhys, Jean --- Barnes, Djuna --- Woolf, Virginia --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Feminism --- Jewish feminism --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Women's writings, English --- Women authors. --- Themes, motives. --- Identity. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Female authors --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Interbellum --- Judaism --- Literary criticism --- Writers --- Stereotypes --- Book --- Imaging