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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      07 February 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511485176
      9780521877855
      9780521178464
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485176
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.588kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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    T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, 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. The book includes extensive archival research on some mostly unknown bawdy poetry by T. S. Eliot while offering readings of major work by both writers, including The Waste Land, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with several major modernist thinkers of memory, including Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to offer compelling reconsiderations of the relation between textuality, remembrance and the body in modernist literature.

    Reviews

    Review 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

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