Amy Lowell, Diva Poet (Paperback, 1)

Contents: Introduction: the poet as diva: femininity, celebrity, poetry; The fat woman in the attic: cultural memory and the construction of a persona; The demon saleswoman: selling avant-garde poetics to the American public; The last of the barons: Americanism and gender ambivalence in wartime; Nothing to hide: Lowell's love poems and the myth of authenticity; The erotics of submission: Eleonora Duse in Lowell's poetry; Afterword: whatever happened to Amy Lowell?: Works cited; Index.