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Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, USA.  She has published widely on modernism, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.  Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment; Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: Woolf, James, Joyce, and Freud.  She has also edited the Longman anthology Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism.

• Chapter 1. Suck, Don’t Blow!.- Chapter 2. The Salesman Only Rings Once.- Chapter 3. The Mechanical Maid.- Chapter 4. The Never-Never Plan.- Chapter 5. Tales of Lust and Dust.- Chapter 6. Vampires and Curmudgeons.