Modernist Impersonalities Affect, Authority, and the Subject

Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

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Affect, Authority, and the Subject Rochelle Rives

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Modernist Impersonalities

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First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-02187-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rives, Rochelle. Modernist impersonalities : affect, authority, and the subject / Rochelle Rives. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-137-02187-8 1. Modernism (Literature)—English-speaking countries. 2. Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc. PN56.M54R58 2012 809'.9112—dc23 2012001767 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: September 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Modernism and the “Escape from Personality”

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“The Dissociation of Personality”: Space and the Impersonal Ideal

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The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority

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A “Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy”: D. H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative

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Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Bu