The best of Djuna Barnes's dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre. Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her breakthrough and…

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A Book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this…

In her new book,the author argues that Barnes’ writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to…

This work is a novel in which real persons or actual events figure under disguise. Its subject is the predominantly lesbian social circle centering on Natalie Clifford Barney's salon in…

By examining Djuna Barnes’ work, this title raises questions about biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. It shows how throughout Barnes’ corpus the repetition of…

Looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes’ writing. This work explores the editorial…

Examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged - one in which feminist…

Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics" - a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in…