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Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.

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Introduction: Conquering new worlds - women, modernism and nationalism. Domesticating the empire - British womanhood and national culture; "Neither English nor civilised" - Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade; encoding bi-location - Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of Sapphic dissimulation; Mary Butt's England - racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood; mapping "the body of our mother" - national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf; epilogue - rebuilding the house of England.

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/29/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719061646, 978-0719061646
      ISBN10: 0719061644

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Conquering new worlds - women, modernism and nationalism. Domesticating the empire - British womanhood and national culture; "Neither English nor civilised" - Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade; encoding bi-location - Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of Sapphic dissimulation; Mary Butt's England - racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood; mapping "the body of our mother" - national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf; epilogue - rebuilding the house of England.

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