The Amazon in the drawing room : Natalie Clifford Barney's Parisian salon, 1909-1970 / Mary Clare Greenshields
Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis is organised into two chapters and an appendix.The first chapter explores the significant American expatriate movement in France in the early part of the twentieth century, in an effort to answer the question -Why France?‖The second chapter examines the life and work of Natalie Clifford Barney, an American expatriate writer in Paris, who wrote predominantly in French and ran an important weekly salon for over sixty years.Specifically, her aesthetic and subject matter, her life, and her fraught publishing history are considered.The appendix is a translation of Barney's 1910 book of aphorisms entitled Éparpillements.
Author: Mary Clare Greenshields
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2201732984