The modernist party
edited by Kate McLoughlin
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- vi. 228 p.:
Includes index.
Introduction: A Welcome from the Host Kate McLoughlin 1 ’The dinner was indeed quiet’: Domestic Parties in the Work of Joseph Conrad Susan Jones 2 Prufrock, Party-Goer: Tongue-Tied at Tea Kate McLoughlin 3 Party Joyce: From the ’Dead’ to When We ’Wake’ Jean-Michel Rabate 4 ’Looking at the party with you’: Pivotal Moments in Katherine Mansfield’s Party Stories Angela Smith 5 Virginia Woolf’s Idea of a Party Bryony Randall 6 Proustian Peristalsis: Parties Before, During and After David R. Ellison 7 ’Ezra through the open door’: The Parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as Lesbian Modernist Cultural Production Joanne Winning 8 ’Indeed everybody did come’: Parties, Publicity and Intimacy in Gertrude Stein’s Plays Alex Goody 9 The Interracial Party of Modernist Primitivism and the Black ’After-Party’ Margo Natalie Crawford 10 The Party In Extremis in D. H. Lawrence’s ’Women in Love Margot Norris 11 Bohemian Retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, Post-War Memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club Nathan Waddell 12 ’Pleasure too often repeated’: Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach