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.
Modernism and the 'Escape From Personality' 'The Dissociation of Personality:' Space and the Impersonal Ideal The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority A 'Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy:' D.H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object A 'Solicitude for Things:' Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman Conclusion: Emotion after the Death of the Heart
