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. Bernard Schweizer, Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West's Genres Chapter 2: 'The Wild Eye of the Artist': Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the Soldier Chapter 3: 'The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot': New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The Judge Chapter 4: 'A Mystical Confusion of Substance': Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West's Harriet Hume Chapter 5: Art's 'Blazing Jewel' in The Strange Necessity Chapter 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 Epic Notes References Index

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. Bernard Schweizer, Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West's Genres Chapter 2: 'The Wild Eye of the Artist': Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the Soldier Chapter 3: 'The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot': New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The Judge Chapter 4: 'A Mystical Confusion of Substance': Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West's Harriet Hume Chapter 5: Art's 'Blazing Jewel' in The Strange Necessity Chapter 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 Epic Notes References Index

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. Bernard Schweizer, Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West's Genres Chapter 2: 'The Wild Eye of the Artist': Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the Soldier Chapter 3: 'The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot': New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The Judge Chapter 4: 'A Mystical Confusion of Substance': Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West's Harriet Hume Chapter 5: Art's 'Blazing Jewel' in The Strange Necessity Chapter 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 Epic Notes References Index