H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Sicle Gender, Modernism, Decadence [Paperback]

H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues foremost that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy'.H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues that the 20th-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the feminine personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as effeminate. The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role-reversal on a modernist woman writer.H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues that the 20th-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the feminine personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as effeminate. The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role-reversal on a modernist woman writer.H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle argues that the twentieth-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the feminine personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as effeminate. The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role reversal on a modernist woman writer.Acknowledgements; Introduction: Dramatis Personae: The Aesthete Androgyne and the Femme Fatale; 1. The Rhetoric of Anti-Romanticism: gendered genealogies of male modernism; 2. H. D.'s Early Decadent Masks and Images: HER; Sea Garden; Part I. The Aesthete Androgyne: 3. Writing the Decadent Boy AndrogynlS)