Shattered Objects

Elizabeth Pender has taught English literature at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. She is currently based at the University of Sydney.Cathryn Setz is Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and the founder of the Djuna Barnes Research Seminar.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionElizabeth Pender and Cathryn SetzPart 1: Modernism in Print1 Djuna Barnes on the PageAlex Goody2 Djuna Barnes’s Short Stories in A Night Among the Horses (1929) and Spillway (1962)Elizabeth PenderPart 2: Human and Beast3 Nightwood ’s HumansRachel Potter4 Djuna Barnes’s Creatures in an Alphabet: From A for Anecdotage to Z for ZoomancyBruce Gardiner5 Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, and the Making of the Lesbian Modernist Grotesque Joanne WinningPart 3: Barnesean Style6 The Critique of Modernist Wit: Djuna Barnes’s NightwoodDrew Milne7 “Trees of Heaven”: Djuna Barnes’s Late Metaphysical VerseCathryn Setz8 “If Some Strong Woman”: Djuna Barnes’s Great Capacity for All Things UncertainDaniela Caselli9 “The Havoc of Nicety”: Djuna Barnes’s Ryder and the Catastrophe of Epochal ChangeTyrus MillerPart 4: Modernist Afterlives10 Djuna Barnes: The Flower of Her SecretMelissa Jane Hardie11 Making Contact: Affect, Queer Historiography, and “Our Djuna”Julie TaylorAfterwordPeter NichollsSelected BibliographyElizabeth PenderNotes on ContributorsIndex

“Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art.”—Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture