The American H.D / Annette Debo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debo, Annette, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

H. D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-rangin

Contents:

Introduction: The modern nation, identity, and H.D

Her early American scene: H.D., Pennsylvania, and Marianne Moore

America's second great period of literary creation: nation and H.D.'s literary imagination

Plants and trees make countries: H.D.'s sacred land

America cannot hold unless black meets white: the Harlem Renaissance's transatlantic influence

A woman's age: nation and women

Epilogue: Frankly and frenziedly American.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609380939

1609380932

OCLC:

793166888