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Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

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Modernism and the ´Escape From Personality´´The Dissociation of Personality:´ Space and the Impersonal Ideal The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority A ´Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy:´ D.H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object A ´Solicitude for Things:´ Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman Conclusion: Emotion after the Death of the Heart

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Rochelle Rives is an Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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