In this Book
- The American H.D.
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
In The American H.D., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the artistic vision and life of the modernist writer Hilda Doolittle. Her versatile career stretching from 1906 to 1961, H.D. was a major American writer who spent her adult life abroad; a poet and translator who also wrote experimental novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and a children’s book; a white writer with ties to the Harlem Renaissance; an intellectual who collaborated on avant-garde films and film criticism; and an upper-middle-class woman who refused to follow gender conventions. Her wide-ranging career thus embodies an expansive narrative about the relationship of modernism to the United States and the nuances of the American nation from the Gilded Age to the Cold War.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xxi
- 5. A Woman’s Age: Nation and Women
- pp. 177-207
- Epilogue: Frankly and Frenziedly American
- pp. 209-212
- Works Cited
- pp. 229-250
Additional Information
Copyright
2012