Literary liaisons
Subtitle: auto/biographical appropriations in modernist women's fiction
By: Lynette Felber.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.; Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Autobiographical fiction, English -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Couples in literature.; Self in literature.
Description: "Unhappy relationships are the stuff of fiction - or so Lynette Felber observes as she examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and H.D., she investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their novels and stories.

Whether heterosexual or lesbian, these women struggled to assert the authority of their own literary voices and to achieve professional recognition distinct from their partners."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTODUCTI0N- "Books Not f the Imagination" 3 1 The Many Faces of June- Anais Nin's Appropriation of Feminine Writing 32 2 Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca West's Sunflower 58 3 Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz- Household Plagarism and Other Crimes of the Heart 88 4 Accommodation in Radclyffe Hall's The Forge 120 5 The Writer Self in H.D.'s Auto/biographical Fiction 142 AFTERWORD - Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration 185.