Hayford Hall
Subtitle: hangovers, erotics, and modernist aesthetics
By: edited by Elizabeth Podnieks and Sandra Chait.
Contributors: Podnieks, Elizabeth.; Chait, Sandra, 1947-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Devon.; Hayford Hall (England); English literature -- England -- Devon -- History and criticism.; Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Devon.; Modernism (Literature) -- England -- Devon.; Literary landmarks -- England -- Devon.; Country homes -- England -- Devon.; Devon (England) -- Social life and customs.; Devon (England) -- Intellectual life.; Devon (England) -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "What a heavenly place this is"; title: A brief note on the history of Hayford Hall / Malcolm Dunstan; title: "Daisy Miller with rather more balls" : biographical notes on Peggy Guggenheim / Mary Dearborn; title: Framed liminalities : Antonia White's Beyond the glass and Emily Coleman's The shutter of snow / Julie Vandivere; title: Antonia White and the subversion of literary impotence at Hayford Hall / Sandra Jeffery; title: "They sat and roared" : Hayford Hall's performance in the diary of Emily Coleman / Elizabeth Podnieks; title: The innocent children of Nightwood and Hayford Hall / David Copeland; title: "Melancholia, melancholia" : changing black bile into black ink in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Martina Stange; title: Site also of angst and spiritual search / Sandra Chait; title: Conclusion : beyond Buckfastleigh.