Signets: Reading H.D. - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299126846 ISBN 13: 9780299126841

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Synopsis

Signets brings together the best essays of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H. D.'s work and complemented them with photobiographical, chronological, and bibliographical portraits unique to this volume.
    The essays in Signets span H. D.'s career from the origins of Imagism to late modernism, from the early poems of Sea Garden to the novel HER and the epic poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Diana Collecott, Robert Duncan, Albert Gelpi, Eileen Gregory, Susan Gubar, Barbara Guest, Elizabeth A. Hirsch, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cassandar Laity, Adalaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cyrena N. Pondrom, Perdita Schaffner, and Louis H. Silverstein.
    Signets is an essential resource for those interested in H. D., modernism, and feminist criticism and writing.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Stanford Friedman is professor of English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her works include Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H. D. and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction. Rachel Blau DuPlessis is professor of English at Temple University. She is author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of the Twentieth-Century Women Writers and H. D.: The Career of that Struggle.

From the Back Cover

Signets brings together the best essays on H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). It is a collection of the most influential and generative studies of H.D. 's work. It is then complemented them with photo biographical, chronological, and bibliographical portraits unique to this volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299126846
• ISBN 13: 9780299126841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368