Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued […] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.

• Acknowledgments List of AbbreviationsChapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West’s GenresChapter 2: ‘The Wild Eye of the Artist’: Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the SoldierChapter 3: ‘The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot’: New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The JudgeChapter 4: ‘A Mystical Confusion of Substance’: Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West’s Harriet HumeChapter 5: Art’s ‘Blazing Jewel’ in The Strange NecessityChapter 6: ‘The tragic spirit come back into life’: West’s works of the 1930s: A Letter to a Grandfather, St Augustine, The Thinking Reed, The Harsh Voice Chapter 7: ‘To Cast Away All Acquisitions and Certainties’: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Combines Travel Genres and the EpicNotesReferencesIndex

Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued […] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.

• Acknowledgments List of AbbreviationsChapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West’s GenresChapter 2: ‘The Wild Eye of the Artist’: Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the SoldierChapter 3: ‘The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot’: New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The JudgeChapter 4: ‘A Mystical Confusion of Substance’: Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West’s Harriet HumeChapter 5: Art’s ‘Blazing Jewel’ in The Strange NecessityChapter 6: ‘The tragic spirit come back into life’: West’s works of the 1930s: A Letter to a Grandfather, St Augustine, The Thinking Reed, The Harsh Voice Chapter 7: ‘To Cast Away All Acquisitions and Certainties’: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Combines Travel Genres and the EpicNotesReferencesIndex

Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued […] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.

• Acknowledgments List of AbbreviationsChapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West’s GenresChapter 2: ‘The Wild Eye of the Artist’: Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the SoldierChapter 3: ‘The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot’: New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The JudgeChapter 4: ‘A Mystical Confusion of Substance’: Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West’s Harriet HumeChapter 5: Art’s ‘Blazing Jewel’ in The Strange NecessityChapter 6: ‘The tragic spirit come back into life’: West’s works of the 1930s: A Letter to a Grandfather, St Augustine, The Thinking Reed, The Harsh Voice Chapter 7: ‘To Cast Away All Acquisitions and Certainties’: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Combines Travel Genres and the EpicNotesReferencesIndex