Signets: Reading H.D.

Susan Stanford Friedman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 489 pages

Signets brings together the best essays of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H. D.'s work and complemented them with photobiographical, chronological, and bibliographical portraits unique to this volume.
The essays in Signets span H. D.'s career from the origins of Imagism to late modernism, from the early poems of Sea Garden to the novel HER and the epic poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Diana Collecott, Robert Duncan, Albert Gelpi, Eileen Gregory, Susan Gubar, Barbara Guest, Elizabeth A. Hirsch, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cassandar Laity, Adalaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cyrena N. Pondrom, Perdita Schaffner, and Louis H. Silverstein.
Signets is an essential resource for those interested in H. D., modernism, and feminist criticism and writing.

Contents

• Lives: 1
• A Photobiography of H D: 7
• Dating H D s Writing: 46
• Images: 83
• Palimpsests: 183
• Prophecies: 271
• Rescriptings: 371
• Selected Bibliography: 455
• Notes on Contributors: 477
• Index: 485

About the author

Susan Stanford Friedman is professor of English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her works include Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H. D. and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction. Rachel Blau DuPlessis is professor of English at Temple University. She is author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of the Twentieth-Century Women Writers and H. D.: The Career of that Struggle.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Signets: Reading H.D.
• Editors: Susan Stanford Friedman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0299126846, 9780299126841
• Length: 489 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors; Poetry / American / General