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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"—Djuna Barnes's
Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's
Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's
Three Guineas (1938)—that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology.
Trade Review"This work makes an important contribution to studies of the 'gender of modernism' and the relation between modernism and fascism, as well as of the individual authors examined. Carlston's ability to present a sweeping panorama of the preoccupations, theories, fears, and phantasms of both the find de siecle and the fascist period is remarkable, and she is and astute analyst of cultural symptoms and the ideological implications of rhetorical strategies as these are deployed in political argument as well as in literary texts." -- Barbara Spackman
"Carlston's brilliant and unnerving book places three writers in the context of European fascism between the world wars." --
Women's Review of Books"Carlsotn's study of fascist ideology is both cautionary and compelling, a valuable contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of our century." --
Woolf Studies AnnualTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
