Julie Taylor is lecturer in American Studies/Literature at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. She is the author of Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism (Edinburgh UP, 2012) and has recent and forthcoming publications on American modernism in the journals Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, and Twentieth Century Literature.

A thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds: Traumatic Modernism?; 1. 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe': Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon; 2. Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism, and Ryder; 3. 'The infected carrier of the past': Nightwood, Shame, and Modernism; 4. 'That magic reiteration': Ladies Almanack and Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Julie Taylor is lecturer in American Studies/Literature at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. She is the author of Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism (Edinburgh UP, 2012) and has recent and forthcoming publications on American modernism in the journals Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, and Twentieth Century Literature.

A thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds: Traumatic Modernism?; 1. 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe': Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon; 2. Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism, and Ryder; 3. 'The infected carrier of the past': Nightwood, Shame, and Modernism; 4. 'That magic reiteration': Ladies Almanack and Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Julie Taylor is lecturer in American Studies/Literature at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. She is the author of Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism (Edinburgh UP, 2012) and has recent and forthcoming publications on American modernism in the journals Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, and Twentieth Century Literature.

A thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds: Traumatic Modernism?; 1. 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe': Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon; 2. Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism, and Ryder; 3. 'The infected carrier of the past': Nightwood, Shame, and Modernism; 4. 'That magic reiteration': Ladies Almanack and Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.