Author: Elinor WyliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Jennifer Lorn, a Sedate Extravaganza
Author: Elinor WylieJENNIFER LORN : A SEDATE EXTRAVAGANZA ; ILLUMINATING EPISODES IN THE LIVES OF THE HON. GERALD POYNYARD AND HIS BRIDE
Author: ELINOR H. WYLIEA Private Madness
Author: Evelyn Helmick HivelyPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elinor Wylie's body of work - four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928 - has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences. This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of the twenties. Described by contemporaries as an icon of the age, Wylie was illustrative of the tone and mores of the notorious decade in which her poems, novels, and Vanity Fair articles were written. Her friendships with such notables as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and William Rose Benet and the events she endured - her father suffered breakdowns and a brother, a sister, and her first husband fell victim to suicide - colored her life and often mirrored the temper of the twenties. Her independence, unconventional behavior, narcissism, interest in the occult, the frantic pace of her life, and her problem with alcohol are evident in her novels and her poems. Her work embraces the escapism of the era in which
The Bookman's Index
Author: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
Author: Elinor WyliePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873388290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of her novels, and short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to define Wylie's place on the 1920s literary scene.
The Best Books of Our Time, 1901-1925
Author: Asa Don DickinsonPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1790
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 20 : Nos. 1 - 125 (Issued April, 1923 - May, 1924)
The Colophon
Author: Elmer AdlerPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Fiction. Juvenile fiction
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description
Author: Elinor Wylie