Beschreibung:
Drawing on archival materials, biography, war journalism, and theoretical texts, the author argues that the visionary politics of H.D.'s long poems cannot be reconciled with the feminist agendas currently attributed to them.
Introduction; 1. Stealing from 'muddies body': war and wom en's aggression in Trilogy; 2. I read the writing when he seized my throat: hysteria, montage and revolution in Helen in Egypt; 3. That Memmon in the desert: modernism and deconolization in Hermetic Definition; Notes; Index.