Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book SynopsisOne of the first book-length studies of a female modernist writer and the professions, this monograph explores the relationship between Virginia Woolf's writing and the rise of the professions in twentieth-century Britain. This book shows how Woolf participated in debates about the role of the professions in British society.Trade Review'… Chan competently explores related issues of money, war, feminism, democracy and social class.' Kathy Chamberlain, Virginia Woolf BulletinTable of Contents1. The ethics and aesthetics of medicine; 2. Virginia Woolf, amateurism and the professionalisation of literature; 3. Reconfiguring professionalism: Lily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe; 4. Translating the fact of the professions into the fiction of vision: The Years and Three Guineas; 5. A balancing act: Between the Acts and the aesthetics of specialisation.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights. By closely examining the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the United States, it shows that fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and womanhood plays an important role in countering imperialism.Trade Review'In tracing an idea from the earliest times to the twenty-first century, Richards is pushing back against the scholarship on both imperialism and the history of sexuality that argues that causal connections over such a long period can be superficial … It is a strength of Richards' work that he weaves together insights from a range of disciplines, cultures, and historic periods in a way relevant to contemporary political struggles. This is an important argument that deserves widespread consideration.' Charles Upchurch, Law and History ReviewTable of Contents1. Patriarchy and democracy; 2. Imperialism and patriarchy; 3. The rise of gay rights; 4. The fall of empire; 5. Gay rights in former British colonies: legacy of empire?; 6. Gay rights as universal human rights.

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Book SynopsisThe manuscript of this 1954 book of hours is a complete Malkite Horologion: a translation for the most part of a Horologion of the Greek Orthodox Church into Palestinian Syriac, the dialect of Amaric employed in their scriptures and services by the Malkites, a Syrian sect of the Orthodox Church.Table of ContentsForeword C. H. Dodd; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Critical notes; Vocabulary; Translation; The text; Indexes; Facsimile illustrations.

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Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot''s The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to define the literary and artistic period known as modernism. This Companion is the first to be dedicated to the work as a whole, offering fifteen new essays by international scholars and covering an extensive range of topics. Written in a style that is at once sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike--Table of Contents1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape Spencer Morrison; 3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us Lyndall Gordon; 4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land Barry Spurr; 5. Popular culture in The Waste Land David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel; 6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde Michael Levenson; 7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land Jewel Spears Brooker; 8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land Michael Coyle; 9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land Rachel Potter; 10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land Richard Badenhausen; 11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectives in The Waste Land Eve Sorum; 12. The Waste Land as ecocritique Gabrielle McIntire; Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond Tony Cuda.

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Book SynopsisThis volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis''s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from ''The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version'' to ''Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism'', from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis''s best critical writing.Trade Review'There is no essay by C. S. Lewis on any writer that does not provoke attention and inspire awe at his energy and clarity of mind.' Claude Rawson, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Walter Hooper; 1. De Descriptione Temporum; 2. The alliterative metre; 3. What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato; 4. The fifteenth-century Heroic line; 5. Hero and Leander; 6. Variation in Shakespeare and others; 7. Hamlet: the prince or the poem?; 8. Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century; 9. The literary impact of the authorised version; 10. The vision of John Bunyan; 11. Addision; 12. Four-letter words; 13. A note on Jane Austen; 14. Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot; 15. Sir Walter Scott; 16. William Morris; 17. Kipling's world; 18. Bluspels and flalansferes: a semantic nightmare; 19. High and low brows; 20. Metre; 21. Psycho-analysis and literary criticism; 22. The anthropological approach; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the fresh ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.Table of Contents1. New media ecology Julian Murphet; 2. History's dark markings: Faulkner and film's racial representation Peter Lurie; 3. 'What moves at the margin': William Faulkner and race Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman; 4. Faulkner and biopolitics Patricia E. Chu; 5. As I Lay Dying and the modern aesthetics of ecological crisis Susan Scott Parrish; 6. Faulkner and trauma: on Sanctuary's originality Greg Forter; 7. Queer Faulkner: whores, queers, and the transgressive south Jaime Harker; 8. Faulkner and southern studies Melanie Benson Taylor; 9. The Faulkner factor: influence and intertextuality in south fiction since 1965 Martyn Bone; 10. They endured: the Faulknerian novel and post-45 American fiction Benjamin Widiss; 11. A new region of the world: Faulkner, Glissant, and the Caribbean Hugues Azérad; 12. The Faulknerian anthropocene: scales of time and history in The Wild Palms and Go Down, Moses Ramón Saldívar and Sylvan Goldberg; 13. Reading Faulkner in and beyond postcolonial studies: 'There is nowhere for us to go now but east' Randy Boyagoda.

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Book SynopsisFitzgerald planned to publish a collection of his personal essays, but never did. Fortunately he left behind a table of contents, and it has been possible to reconstruct the collection that he envisioned, as My Lost City. This volume features authoritative texts, a textual apparatus, and full explanatory notes.Trade Review'The result is a wealth of context for these very contemporary essays …' Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Fitzgerald's Selections, 1936: 1. Who's Who - and Why (1920); 2. Princeton (1927); 3. What I Think and Feel at 25 (1922); 4. How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924); 5. How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924); 6. Imagination - and a Few Mothers (1923); 7. 'Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!' (1924); 8. How to Waste Material (1926); 9. One Hundred False Starts (1933); 10. Ring (1933); 11. A Short Autobiography (1929); 12. Girls Believe in Girls (1930); 13. My Lost City (1935/1940); 14. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number' (1934); 15. Echoes of the Jazz Age (1931); 16. The Crack-Up (1936); 17. Pasting It Together (1936); 18. Handle with Care (1936); Part II. Additional Essays, 1936–1940: 19. Auction - Model 1934 (1934); 20. Sleeping and Waking (1934); 21. Author's House (1936); 22. Afternoon of an Author (1936); 23. An Author's Mother (1936); 24. Early Success (1937); 25. My Generation (1939); Record of Variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number -'; Appendix 2. Publication and Earnings.

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Book SynopsisTracing its compositional history, this edition of The Great Gatsby presents the novel in its raw format to reveal the development of character and revision of language. Suitable for critics, teachers and students, this scholarly edition conveys an amalgamation of talent, inspiration and self-discipline which culminated in Fitzgerald's masterpiece.Trade Review'Like a jazz album offering multiple takes on a single tune, the value of this edition lies in the access it offers to the creative process. Comparing it to the novel published in April 1925 reveals the decisions Fitzgerald made as he revised his greatest work and supplies fascinating insights into its evolution … Seeing The Great Gatsby as it might have been shows that Fitzgerald's drive for perfection matched that of his beloved hero.' Sarah Graham, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.

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Book SynopsisThe book reveals the wide range of personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped Sylvia Plath's work. The primary readers envisioned are students, scholars, and instructors of Plath and twentieth century poetry more generally.Trade Review'Appearing in the 'In Context' series, this volume offers an excellent scholarly overview of Sylvia Plath's life, work, influence, and afterlife … An indispensable resource that deepens understanding of Plath's work and world.' L. Simon, Choice'A varied and well-edited selection that indicates the range of current Plath studies.' Ann Kennedy Smith, TLSTable of ContentsPart I. Literary Contexts: 1. Plath and the American poetry scene Jonathan Ellis; 2. The dominant trends in British poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s Eleanor Spencer; 3. Plath and the classics Holly Ranger; 4. Plath and the radio drama Andrew Walker; 5. 'Sincerely yours': Plath and The New Yorker Peter K. Steinberg; Part II. Literary Technique and Influence: 6. Plath in the context of Stevie Smith Noreen Masud; 7. Plath's whimsy Will May; 8. Sylvia Plath and you Tracy Brain; 9. Plath and the lyric Lucy Tunstall; 10. Plath and the pastoral Iain Twiddy; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 11. Plath and food Gerard Woodward; 12. Plath and fashion Rebecca C. Tuite; 13. Experimental bravery: Plath's poetry and auteur cinema Lynda Bundtzen; 14. Plath and television Nicola Presley; 15. Plath and art Jane Hedley; Part IV. Sexual and Gender Contexts: 16. 'Minor scandal': queer writing contexts for The Bell Jar Beatrice Hitchman; 17. 'Woman-haters were like gods': The Bell Jar and violence against women in 1950s America Kate Harding; 18. Sylvia Plath and the culture of hygiene Laura Perry; Part V. Political and Religious Contexts: 19. The Bell Jar, the Rosenbergs and the problem of the enemy within Robin Peel; 20. Religious contexts for Sylvia Plath's work Gail Crowther; 21. Plath and nature Richard Kerridge; 22. Plath and war Cornelia Pearsall; Part VI. Biographical Contexts: 23. Sylvia Plath's journals Sally Bayley; 24. Plath's teaching and the shaping of her work Amanda Golden; 25. Electroshock therapy and Plath's convulsive poetics Anita Helle; 26. Plath's scrapbooks Peter K. Steinberg; 27. Beyond letters home: Plath's unabridged correspondence Karen V. Kukil; Part VII. Plath and Place: 28. 'A certain minor light': Sylvia Plath in Brontë country Sarah Corbett; 29. Plath in London Elaine Feinstein; 30. Plath in Devon: growing words out of isolation Maeve O'Brien; Part VIII. The Creative Afterlife: 31. An alternative afterlife: Plath's experimental poetics Gareth Farmer; 32. British and American editions of Ariel and The Bell Jar Elena Rebollo-Cortés; 33. After Plath: the legacy of influence Fiona Sampson; 34. P(l)athography: Sylvia Plath and her biographers Heather Clark.

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Book SynopsisAddressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as ''turn-of-the-century'' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the ''nation'' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasTable of ContentsIntroduction: We have never been post-reconstruction Lindsay V. Reckson; I. Transitive States: 1. Radical pasts, radical futures Michelle Coghlan; 2. Unsettled colonialisms Mary Zaborskis; 3. Secularism, race, and sex Peter Coviello; 4. Sex and the suicide plot Dana Seitler; 5. Virtual subjects Katherine Biers; II. Post-Reconstruction Aesthetics: 6. Lyrics of the color line Sonya Posmentier; 7. Experimental realisms Natalia Cecire; 8. Species of sentiment Lisa Mendelman; 9. The micro-climates of regionalism William Gleason; 10. Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture Alexandra Socarides; III. Old Materialisms: 11. Oil Jamie L. Jones; 12. Waste Stephanie Foote; 13. Blood Nancy Bentley; 14. Color against realism Nicholas Gaskill; IV. Immanent Techniques: 15. Francis Harper's reconstruction Brigitte Fielder; 16. Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism Sharon Oster; 17. Henry James's temporalities Pamela Thurschwell; 18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism Cécile Roudeau; 19. Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) Matthew A. Taylor.

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood's recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review'Recommended.' T. Ware, Choice Connect'This book is a worthy addition to the series. Its focus on topics as diverse as Canadian identity, dystopias, power, poetry and poetics, environmentalism, humour, feminism, and digital technology ensure that there is something for all Atwood fans, and for Canadian scholars in general.' Jane Ekstam, British Journal of Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Coral Ann Howells; 1. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Margaret Atwood on questions of power Pilar Somacarrera; 3. Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction Eleonora Rao; 4. Margaret Atwood's female bodies Sarah A. Appleton; 5. Margaret Atwood and environmentalism J. Brooks Bouson; 6. Margaret Atwood and history Gina Wisker; 7. Margaret Atwood's revisions of classic texts Fiona Tolan; 8. Margaret Atwood's humor Marta Dvořák; 9. Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics Branko Gorjup; 10. Margaret Atwood's later short fiction Reingard M. Nischik; 11. Margaret Atwood's recent dystopias Coral Ann Howells; 12. The Hulu and MGM television adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale Eva-Marie Kröller.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for students, scholars, poets, and general readers, this book provides a useful guide for anyone interested in contemporary American poetry. By offering close readings of exemplary poems in relation to historical and political contexts, this book gives readers the background and tools necessary to understand post-1945 American poetry.Table of ContentsIntroduction. American poetry since 1945; Part I. American Poetry from 1945 to 1970:; 1. The raw and the cooked: the new criticism versus the new American poetry; 2. The Black Mountain poets; 3. The beats and the San Francisco renaissance; 4. The New York school of poetry; 5. The middle generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and confessional poetry; 6. Deep image poetry; 7. African American poetry from 1945 to 1970; Part II. American Poetry from 1970 to 2000:; 8. A new 'mainstream' period style in poetry of the 1970s and 1980s; 9. Language poetry; 10. Feminism and women's poetry from 1970 to 2000; 11. Diversity, identity, and poetry from 1970 to 2000; Part III. Into the New Millennium: American Poetry from 2000 to the Present:; 12. New directions in American poetry from 2000 to the present; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisReading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase ''21st-century American literature,'' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its aesthetic priorities, and where its geographical boundaries lie. Considerable criticism has been published on this extraordinary era, but little programmatic analysis has assessed comprehensively the literary and critical/theoretical output to help readers navigate the labyrinth of critical pathways. In addition to ensuring broad coverage of many essential texts, The Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction offers state-of-the field analyses of contemporary narrative studies that set the terms of current and future research and teaching. Individual chapters illuminate critical engagements with emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, speculative fiction, digital fiction, alternative temporalities, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, transgender/queer studiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Joshua L. Miller; Part I. Forms: 1. Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Microfiction Angela Naimou; 2. Experimental Fiction David James; 3. Speculative Fiction Mark Bould; 4. Graphic Fiction Katalin Orbán; 5. Digital Fiction Scott Rettberg; Part II. Approaches: 6. Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism Candice M. Jenkins; 7. Transpacific Diasporas Julia H. Lee; 8. Hemispheric Routes Mary Pat Brady; 9. Transgender and Transgenre Writing Trish Salah; 10. Climate Fiction Heather Houser; Part III. Themes: 11. Convergence Mark Goble; 12. Dissolution Crystal Parikh; 13. Immobilit Dennis Childs; 14. Insecurity Hamilton Carroll; Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1942, this book contains four poems on the different seasons by James Turner. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry and the works of Turner.Table of ContentsSummer; Autumn; Winter; Spring.

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Book SynopsisWritten by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.Trade Review'… impeccably researched and annotated … Readers will find each of the articles in this volume interesting and insightful.' Edward Ousselin, French Studies: A Quarterly Review'… a wonderfully coherent, effervescent, tirelessly engaging volume.' Clive Scott, Journal of European StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Adam Watt; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Life William C. Carter; 2. Correspondence Luc Fraisse, translated by Lesley Lawn; 3. Finding a form: 'Les Plaisirs et les jours' to 'Contre Sainte-Beuve' Nathalie Aubert; 4. Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches Cynthia Gamble; 5. Composition and publication of Á la recherche du temps perdu Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; Part II. Historical and Cultural Contexts: i. The Arts: 6. Proust's reading Caroline Szylowicz; 7. Decadence and the fin de siècle Marion Schmid; 8. Paris and the avant-garde Hugues Azerad; 9. The novelistic tradition Hugues Azerad and Marion Schmid; 10. Philosophy Thomas Baldwin; 11. Painting Gabrielle Townsend; 12. Music Julian Johnson; 13. Theatre and dance Áine Larkin; ii. Self and Society: 14. Freud and psychoanalysis Céline Surprenant; 15. Sexuality Elisabeth Ladenson; 16. Health and medicine Michael R. Finn; 17. Technology and science Sarah Tribout-Joseph; 18. Religion Margaret Topping; 19. Travel Margaret Topping; 20. Journalism Christine M. Cano; 21. Politics and class Edward J. Hughes; 22. The Dreyfus Affair Edward J. Hughes; 23. The First World War Brigitte Mahuzier; Part III. Critical Reception: 24. Critical reception during Proust's lifetime Anna Magdalena Elsner; 25. Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s Vincent Ferré; 26. Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960s to 1980s Thomas Baldwin; 27. Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses Adam Watt; 28. Modernism David Ellison; 29. Adaptations/afterlives Margaret E. Gray; 30. Translations Michael Wood.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the intersection of British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. By analyzing literary texts alongside scientific ones, Paul Peppis demonstrates how these competing disciplines participated in the formation of modernism as a broad, cross-disciplinary cultural movement.Trade Review'Peppis brings … close reading skills to ten early modernist texts … to show that literature and science, rather than being antithetical 'discourses' were subtly collaborative in the engineering of high modernism's 'black boxes'.' The Times Literary Supplement'Scholars of English literary modernism will find Sciences of Modernism a significant contribution to the field. Meticulously researched, Paul Peppis's most recent book positions a diverse series of early twentieth-century books in historical context as well as in critical tradition.' T. Hugh Crawford, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Ethnographies: 1. Salvage ethnography, cultural cross-dressing, and autoethnography in A. C. Haddon's Head-Hunters: Black, White and Brown; 2. Salvaging dialect, cultural cross-dressing, and antiethnographic autoethnography in Claude McKay's Constab Ballads; Part II. Sexologies: 3. Homosexual Bildung and sexological modernism in Havelock Ellis and John A. Symonds's Sexual Inversion and E. M. Forster's Maurice; 4. Re-writing sex: sexology and sentimental modernism in Marie Stopes's Married Love and Mina Loy's Songs to Joannes; Part III. Psychologies: 5. Treating trauma, modernizing narrative: Bernard Hart's The Psychology of Insanity and Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier; 6. 'Mental Cases': forms of shellshock in William Brown's Psychology and Psychotherapy and Poems by Wilfred Owen; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAn American Childhood more than takes the reader''s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you''re a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood. — Chicago TribuneA book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard''s poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents—from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions—Dillard''s brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you. 

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Book SynopsisIn a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a provocative new account of the relationship between photography and modernist literature--a literature which has long been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the influence of modern visual technologies. Making pioneering claims about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of Francis Galton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the reappropriation of lynching photographTrade ReviewBeestons methodology has all the hallmarks and pleasures of the current trend in literary studies that blends theoretical subtlety—ably moving between the various branches of media and visual studies, as well as feminist theory and theories of modernity—with archival detail. ... This is an exciting debut, one which discloses through its study of the past consequential insights about how we intercept and areintercepted by mediated forms in our present. * Feminist Modernist Studies *Beeston's probing, artful, and original In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen extends and redirects [the] dialogue between modernist literature and visual media. ... In and Out of Sight is a genuinely interdisciplinary project; its author is as conversant in moving-image studies as she is in modernist literary studies. Beeston sustains her range of references through what she identifies as a sort of critical montage, a methodology that poses important questions for the future of modernist studies. ... Beeston encodes her 'strong' combination of theoretical, formalist, and archival rigor within an open—composite, fractured, sutured—reading practice. It is this openness...that is sure to make it durable for generations of future scholars. * Stephen Pasqualina, Modernism/modernity *In and Out of Sight is powered by a truly interdisciplinary gathering of proofs and examples taken from photography, literature, history, and theory from the modernist moment and our own. [This book] may be the most thrilling offering of 2018". * Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English Studies *Alix Beeston's bold and challenging new book offers a corrective to [Gertrude] Stein's statement of filmic equivalence, asking that we linger instead with the strangeness of photography when trying to account for literary modernism's interest in serial form. â Beeston carefully establishes a body of criticism into which her own book might be situated and forges an exciting direction for future work in modernist studies, photography and literature, still-moving studies, and feminist studies. * Louise Hornby , University of California, Los Angeles , Modern Language Review *Beeston's impressive first book makes significant contributions not just to the reading of literary and visual modernism but to the understanding of gender, race, and class in twentieth-century American culture... The theoretical and critical analyses of In and Out of Sight reveal how the tensions of the photographic unseen and the still-moving field exist in the representations of gender, race, and class that American visual or verbal images and texts subordinate. * Joseph R. Millichap , MFS Modern Fiction Studies *Alix Beeston's In and Out of Sight is one of several exciting and innovative accounts of the relation between literature and photography to appear in recent years, studies that have charted a new course for the field away from a focus on questions of realism and indexicality... the readings that emerge are powerful and persuasive... [it] is a welcome contribution to modernist and visual studies, persuasive evidence that these intertwined fields remain as vibrant as ever. * Stuart Burrows, American Literary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Things Normally Unseen Chapter 1: Bodies Bad and Gentle: The Surrealist Convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives Chapter 2: Black Flesh is White Ash: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane Chapter 3: Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air: John Dos Passos's Photographic Metropolis Chapter 4: Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing: The Hollywood Writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald Coda: Shared Hallucinations Works Cited

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