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

by Rebecca Bowler, Erik Tonning (Editor), Matthew Feldman (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350063914
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/22/2018
Series:	Historicizing Modernism
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.

Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Literary Impressionism: Subjective and Objective Visions in Dorothy Richardson and Ford Madox Ford i. 'The Thing Perceived and Herself Perceiving': The Double Impression ii. Representing the Unrepresentable I: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End iii. Representing the Unrepresentable II: Dorothy Richardson's 'Golden Light'
2. Visual Metaphors: Dorothy Richardson and H.D.
i. Paintings, Photographs and Sculptural Form in Dorothy Richardson and H.D.
ii. Weaving Cinematic Form: H.D. and Dorothy Richardson
3. Coming to Writing: Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair
4. Memory and Vision
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

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

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