Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes''s masterpiece, Nightwood.

In Djuna Barnes''s Nightwood: ''The World'' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes''s novel against ...