Stevie Smith Between the Lines [Hardcover]

In this first book-length study of Stevie Smith, Romana Huk reassesses the work of this major twentieth-century woman writer as emerging not only from the practices of female literary modernism, but also from within the tumultuous cultural context of mid-century Europe. Huk considers both the poems and the novels in the light of their cultural and literary context. Amongst the work treated here is Smith's rarely discussed trilogy of novels: Novel on Yellow Paper , Over the Frontier and The Holiday .Acknowledgements Abbreviations Between the Lines: Re-reading Stevie Smith and Literary Modernism 'The Times are the Times of the Black Split Heart': Stevie Smith's Life and Work in Context The Trilogy's Take-Off in the Thirties: A Close-Cultural Reading of Novel on Yellow Paper Framing the War: The Second Two Novels of the Trilogy Between Waving and Drowning: Stevie Smith's Poems and Stories Works Cited Index

'...[a] dazzlingly intelligent reading of Stevie Smith's work.' - Will May, The Oxonian Review

ROMANA HUK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is co-editor of Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism (1996), editor of Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (2003) and author of numerous essays on contemporary poetics.