H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Gender, Modernism, by Cassandra Laity

By Cassandra Laity

H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues optimum that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy' and 'personality' by way of embracing the very cults of character within the Decadent Romanticism of Oscar Wilde, A. C. Swinburne, Walter Pater and D. G. Rossetti that her male contemporaries so much deplored: the cult of the demonic femme fatale and of the 'effeminate' Aesthete androgyne. H. D., Laity continues, used those sexually competitive mask to form a feminine modernism that freely engaged male and female androgyny, homoeroticism, narcissism and maternal eroticism. concentrating on the early Sea backyard , the performs and poetry of the Nineteen Twenties and her overdue epic Trilogy, H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle demonstrates H. D.'s shift from the homoerotic 'white', vanishing tropology of the male androgyne shaped via Pater and Wilde to the 'abject' monstrously sexual physique of the Pre-Raphaelite and Decadent femme fatale.

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