New work on May Sinclair, edited by Leslie de Bont, Isabelle Brasme and Florence Marie, published by the Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée.

The edited collection was inspired by research presented at the NETWORKING MAY SINCLAIR conference, held at the UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES on the 24-25 June 2021.

Contents:

Philippa Martindale, ‘Swimming on the Top of This Wave’: May Sinclair’s Letters and the Development of a Modernist Aesthetic.

Sanna Melin Schyllert, May Sinclair’s Public Persona and Fictional Characterisations in H.D.’s Asphodel (1992) and Bid Me to Live (1960).

Suzana Zink. ‘Miss Sinclair’s Sparkles’: May Sinclair in Contemporary Newspapers.

Christine Battersby, The Obscured Childhood Home: May Sinclair, Samuel Butler and the Problem of Heredity.

Maria Juko, Victorian Ideas of Women’s Independence and May Sinclair’s The Three Sisters.

James Thrall, Tapping the Power: Uncanny Communication and Sublimated Will in May Sinclair.

Claire Drewery, A Sudden Corporeal Manifestation: the ‘Sublimative Epiphany’ as Material Aesthetic in the Modernist Novels of May Sinclair and James Joyce.

Rebecca Bowler, May Sinclair’s Dialogic Tesserae.

Leslie de Bont, ‘No Other House Will Ever Be to You What I Have Been’: Atopic Domesticity, Social Affects and Place-Identity in May Sinclair.

Milena Schwab-Graham, ‘Sharp, Queer, Uncertain Happiness’: Walking as Feminist ‘Affective Militancy’ in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier (1919) and The Three Sisters (1914).

Shalini Sengupta, Broken Gifts: ay Sinclair, Modernism, and the Motif of Exchange.

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