Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair

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Main Details

Title Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Rebecca Bowler
SeriesHistoricizing Modernism
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781474269056
ClassificationsDewey:823.9120911
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 22 September 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

With its new innovations in the visual arts, cinema and photography as well as the sciences of memory and perception, the early twentieth century saw a crisis in the relationship between what was seen and what was known. Literary Impressionism charts that modernist crisis of vision and the way that literary impressionists such as Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and May Sinclair used new concepts of memory in order to bridge the gap between perception and representation. Exploring the fiction of these four major writers as well as their journalism, manifesto writings, letters and diaries from the archives, Rebecca Bowler charts the progression of modernism's literary aesthetics and the changing role of memory within it.

Author Biography

Rebecca Bowler is Lecturer in Twentieth Century English Literature at Keele University, UK and was Research Associate on the Dorothy Richardson Scholarly Editions Project. She is co-founder of the May Sinclair Society.

Reviews

Subtle and compelling ... [Bowler] lists a striking range of writers described by recent criticism as impressionist ... shows superbly how all her writers, like Proust, need temporal distance from their experience in order to experience it fully. * Times Literary Supplement *