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Book SynopsisModernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality and the body to render memory's processes.
Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… absorbing, illuminating analysis of Eliot, Woolf, modernist memory and desire. … this study deserves a wide audience.' Mark Hussey, Editor, Woolf Studies Annual
Review of the hardback: '… an accomplished and intriguing piece of work [that] shows … the newness and vitality of Woolf's writings. … From now on, McIntire's own study will be part of the past essential to present studies into the temporality of modernism.' Charles Armstrong, University of Bergen, Norway
Review of the hardback: '… fascinating book … [a] searching inquiry into the erotics of memory.' Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College, and Elisabeth Däumer, Eastern Michigan University
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. An unexpected beginning: sex, race, and history in T. S. Eliot's Columbo and Bolo Poems; 2. Mixing memory and desire: rereading Eliot and the body of history; 3. Eliot, Eros, and desire: 'oh, do not ask, 'what is it?'; 4. T. S. Eliot: writing time and blasting memory; 5. Virginia Woolf, (auto)biography, and the Eros of memory: reading Orlando; 6. Other kinds of autobiographies: sketching the past, forgetting Freud, and reaching the Lighthouse; 7. Remembering what has 'almost already been forgotten:' where memory touches history; Epilogue.
