Stevie Smith

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Romana Huk

   Pages 1-30

3. ‘The times are the times of a black split heart’: Stevie Smith’s Life and Work in Context

   • Romana Huk

   Pages 31-68

4. The Trilogy’s Take-off in the Thirties: A Close-Cultural Reading of Novel on Yellow Paper

   • Romana Huk

   Pages 69-131

5. Framing the War: The Second Two Novels of the Trilogy

   • Romana Huk

   Pages 132-214

6. Between Waving and Drowning: Stevie Smith’s Poems, Stories and Radio Play

   • Romana Huk

   Pages 215-295

7. Back Matter

   Pages 296-331

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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 .

• Modernism
• novel
• poem
• British and Irish Literature

'...[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.

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