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001 1693583
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008 940921t19951995ilub b 000 1 eng
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020 $a1564780805 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm31288503
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050 00 $aPS3503.A614$bN5 1995
082 00 $a813/.52$220
100 1 $aBarnes, Djuna.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108379
245 10 $aNightwood :$bthe original version and related drafts /$cedited, and with an introduction by Cheryl J. Plumb.
260 $aNormal, IL :$bDalkey Archive Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axxvi, 319 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aThe version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs in many respects from the book Djuna Barnes actually wrote. Unable to find a publisher for her earlier, more explicit versions, Barnes allowed her friend Emily Coleman and her editor T. S. Eliot to cut much material - ranging from a word to passages 3 pages long - to create a book "suitable" for publication. Barnes scholar Cheryl J.
520 8 $aPlumb has studied all surviving versions of the work to re-create the novel Barnes originally intended. The Dalkey Archive edition not only restores to the main text the material Barnes reluctantly allowed to be cut - along with her preferred spelling and punctuation - but also reproduces in facsimile the 70 pages of discarded drafts that survive of earlier versions.
520 8 $aThe restored text and related drafts are accompanied by an introduction tracing the novel's composition and by a hundred pages of textual apparatus.
520 8 $aNightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband "Baron" Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge. Commenting on them all is Doctor Matthew O'Connor, whose outlandish monologues elevate their romantic losses to the level of Elizabethan tragedy.
520 8 $aSixty years after its first publication Nightwood is firmly established as a twentieth-century classic, and this critical edition will allow readers and scholars to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this unforgettable work.
600 10 $aBarnes, Djuna.$tNightwood$xCriticism, Textual.
650 0 $aLesbians in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006245
650 0 $aLesbians$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106911
655 7 $aLesbian fiction.$7local
700 1 $aPlumb, Cheryl J.,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86088335
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