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"May Sinclair has been typically considered as a liminal author, positioned between two eras: the 19th and the 20th centuries, Victorian culture and modernism, traditional and avant-garde writing and thinking. As a result, traditional criticism has confined her to the margins of 20th-century literature and philosophy. Re-examining Sinclair's involvement in the literary and philosophical debates of her time, this collaborative volume seeks to challenge this liminal status and to reassert Sinclair's role as an author, critic and thinker firmly established within her time. Leading experts in philosophy and in criticism on May Sinclair thus investigate her presence on the literary scene, her dialogues with her contemporaries (e.g. Dorothy Richardson, H.D., Ford Madox Ford and James Joyce) and her engagement with topical issues such as heredity, women's rights and mysticism, as well as with modernist paradigms such as the epiphany. In light of these new analyses, rather than being uncomfortably situated between two eras, Sinclair emerges as fully in and of her time, engaged in a constant conversation with fellow thinkers, writers, and artists. On a larger scale, this reappraisal of Sinclair's fruitful connections with her peers invites us to go beyond the conventional divide opposing Victorian and modernist writing, and to participate in the current dynamics in criticism that aims to offer a more inclusive and accurate definition of the intellectual scene in early-20th-century Britain." --Back cover.

Literature and philosophy. --- Modernism (Literature) --- English literature --- Sinclair, May --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"May Sinclair's 1904 novel, The Divine Fire, made her a household name in both Britain and the US. From then on she was a prominent figure in many of the literary and cultural movements of her day, mixing with writers such as Ezra Pound, H. D., Thomas Hardy, and Charlotte Mew. A committed if ambivalent feminist, Sinclair published in the suffragist journal Votes for Women, and was one of the first women in England to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. Towards the end of her active life, she wrote the celebrated modernist novel, Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), and the dense, macabre Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922). May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian, the first book to appear on May Sinclair in nearly thirty years, draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of a woman whose life and work reflect the struggles of women of her generation for intellectual and social freedom."--BOOK JACKET.

Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Novelists, English --- Feminists --- Modernism (Literature) --- Feminism and literature. --- Feminists. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Novelists, English. --- Women and literature. --- History --- Sinclair, May. --- Sinclair, May, --- Sinclair, May --- 1900-1999. --- England. --- Great Britain. --- England --- 20th century --- Novelists [English ] --- Biography --- Great Britain

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Feminism --- Literature --- Patriarchy --- Literary criticism --- Stereotypes --- Images of women --- Book --- Richardson, Dorothy M. --- Sinclair, May --- Woolf, Virginia --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain

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This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited — it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials. Sanna Melin Schyllert is Visiting Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France, having previously held posts at Lund University, the University of Westminster, and University College London. Her publications include ‘Sacrifice, Pronoun Shifts and the Creation of Selfin H. D.’s Prose Works’ in The Space Between Journal (2019) and ‘Sacrifice, Community and Narrative Power in Mary Butts’s Taverner Novels’ in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture (2016).

American literature --- English literature --- Sacrifice in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Butts, Mary, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fiction. --- Poetry. --- Literature, Modern --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- European literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Narratology. --- European Literature. --- 20th century. --- Sinclair, May --- H.D. --- Criticism and intepretation. --- Narration (Rhetoric)

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History of Europe --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1910-1919 --- C5 --- vrouwen --- Wereldoorlog I --- Maatschappelijke organisaties en maatschappelijk leven --- Cavell, Edith --- Sinclair, May --- Curie-Sklodowska, Marie --- United States --- United Kingdom --- Russia --- Belgium --- Netherlands --- Belpaire, Marie-Elisabeth --- Feilding, Dorothie --- Bochkareva, Maria Leontievna --- Chisholm, Mairi --- Clement Tripp, Elizabeth --- Elisabeth [Queen of the Belgians] --- Price, Evadne --- Stopes, Marie --- Lawrence, Dorothy --- Knocker, Elsie --- Bochkareva, Maria --- feminisme --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Women --- PXL-Central Office 2014 --- Geschiedenis --- 20e eeuw --- United States of America --- Photography --- Gender --- Gender roles --- Army --- Labour --- Sexual division of labour --- Sexuality --- Writers --- Espionage --- Health care practitioner --- Refugees --- Peace movement --- Images of women --- Book --- First World War