George Egerton by Sigley, Isobel; Standlee, Whitney;

Short description:

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence in 1893 to her dramatic works and their performance history into the 1920s. 

Long description:

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her dramatic works (both original and in translation) and their performance history into the 1920s. This work is an essential addition to ongoing recovery projects and is the first to focus on her 'lost' and unpublished works, mentorship of younger writers, her experiments with characterisations and themes, sociopolitical stances, innovations with form and content, and ultimately, her literary legacy. In doing so, George Egerton: Terra Incognitas reassesses Egerton's broader contribution to fin-de-siècle and early-twentieth-century literature and drama and repositions her as among the most important of the literary innovators of period, and a noteworthy precursor to later female literary modernisers, including Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: - Gerd Karin Bjørhovde, ‘Encountering George Egerton in the Scandinavian Context’

Introduction: – Isobel Sigley and Whitney Standlee

Part 1: Cosmopolitanism and Globalism

1.         Peter Sjølyst-Jackson, ‘“A Foreign Element”: George Egerton, Scandinavian             Literature and Knut Hamsun’s Hunger’

2.         Sravya Bhupatiraju, ‘The Flagrancy of the Flâneuse: George Egerton’s Rejection of the Ideology of Gendered Spheres’

3.         Paul March-Russell, ‘Between Nietzsche and Wagner: Egerton’s “Wounded             Modernism”’

Part 2: Sexual Identities and Queer Form

4.         Heather Marcovitch, ‘George Egerton, John Lane, and Radical Friendship’

5.         Niels Caul, ‘The Wheel of God: An Irish Modernist Bildungsroman’

6.         Clare Stainthorp, ‘“Love is religion”: Spiritual, Esoteric and Epistolary Connection in Rosa Amorosa’

7.         Rachel O’ Nunain, ‘Between Feminism and Conformity: Staging Female Identity in The Backsliders (1911)’   

Part 3: Feminist Geopolitics

8.         Nathalie Saudo-Welby, ‘“How we women digress”: Modernism, Feminism and      Deviation in George Egerton’s short fiction of the 1890s’

9.         Whitney Standlee, ‘Medical and Legal Discourse and Varieties of “Unnatural”             Parenthood in the Works of George Egerton’

10.       Isobel Sigley, ‘The Key Note: Reassessing Egerton’s Short Fiction through Ellen    Key’s Concept of “Collective Motherliness”’

11.       Éadaoin Regan, ‘“I suppose you are Irish” “Half of me”: An exploration of Irish     identity and its role in mental illness in selected works of George Egerton’

Part 4: Influence and Legacy

12.       Eleanor Fitzsimons, ‘George Egerton and the Liberation of Irish Women’

Afterword: Margaret D. Stetz, 'The Future of Egerton Studies'