Description
H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in 1918, H.D. was a modernist poet, married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and pregnant by another man. She fell in love with Bryher, who was entrapped by her wealthy secretive family. Their bond grew over Greek poetry, geography, ancient history and literature, the telegraph, and telepathy. They felt their love-and their true identities existed invisibly- a giddy, and disturbing element to their relationship; they lived off and on in distant geographies, though in near continual contact. This book exposes why literary history has occluded this love story of the world wars and poetic modernism.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis PersonaeThe Voyage Out 1886-1915Chapter 1 The Meeting: "We Too" and ModernismChapter 2 H.D.'s Ancestral CircleChapter 3 Bryher's Family ClosetLINE 1 FLORIDE 1909-1919Chapter 4 Sentimental EducationsChapter 5 Love & Art: Being Phantoms TogetherChapter 6 Romance of Rescue & "The Jellyfish Experience"LINE 2 BORODINO 1920-1928Chapter 7 Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 . . .Chapter 8 Questing America & Marianne MooreChapter 9 Inconvenient Marriages & WanderlustChapter 10 Cinematics: We ThreeLINE 3: PSYCHOANALYSIS 1929-1939Chapter 11 Film Morphing into BorderlineChapter 12 Enter Freud: Dreaming through the HousesChapter 13 Death Drive & "the Perfect Bi"Chapter 14 "Group Consciousness" & IONChapter 15 Abdication, Aggression, AnschlussLINE 4: Blitz 1939-1945Chapter 16 Twilight Zone & "the combined UNK"Chapter 17 Walls Falling & the Drive InwardChapter 18 Séance NightsChapter 19 THE WRITING ON THE WALLLINE 5: Viking 1946-1961 . . . . . . .Chapter 20 Losing One's Mind to Find ItChapter 21 Tidying up ModernismChapter 22 Cold War RomancesChapter 23 Recovery & Illuminations 1953-BibliographyIndex
