Abstract

This review examines Sandeep Parmar’s critical edition of the Collected Poems of British modernist writer Hope Mirrlees. Parmar’s important archival work, discovering hitherto unpublished poems and much new biographical information about her subject, advances our knowledge of Mirrlees’s complex location within and alongside British modernism. It also raises questions about the politics of canon revision and the present state of feminist recovery work. Responding to Jane Garrity’s recent assertion that feminist recovery work is no longer “hip,” the review wonders whether there might be other ways to engage the archive than to mine for texts that answer our present critical needs or that simply help us reconstruct the past.

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