Volume I, Issue I

Introduction

A generation ago, I was preparing to leave Canada to start my graduate program at [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

Susan Ertz’s Sisyphean Women

The 36-year-old Anglo-American writer Susan Ertz began a late career as a novelist in 1923 [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

“Fragments of A Great Confusion”: The Psychological War Sketches of Mary Borden

Between 1914 and 1918, American heiress Mary Borden bankrupted herself to establish a field hospital [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

From Infamy to Exile: the Poetic Evolution of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven from “Cast-Iron Lover” to “Heir”

In 1919, when the exclamatory love poem “Mineself——Minesoul——and——Mine——Cast-Iron Lover” first appeared in the Little Review [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

Claire Spencer (1895-1987) – A Lost Scottish Modernist

In the scholarship on interwar Scottish modernist literature, Claire Spencer is a completely forgotten writer. [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

Pamela Colman Smith: From Tarot Artist to Suffrage Activist

Today, Pamela Colman Smith is primarily remembered for designing the storied 1909 tarot deck that [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

Writing Hatterrese, Reading Desani

Govindas Vishnoodas Desani was born in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents in 1909. When he [...]

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Volume I, Issue I

Bruno Schulz’s X–ray Aesthetics: Anxiety, Titillation, Exposure

In a letter to his friend, Romana Halpern, in mid–February 1938, Polish–Jewish author Bruno Schulz [...]

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