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Maud Ellmann

Maud Ellmann is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1988), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment (1993), Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2004), and The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud (2010). icon

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B-Sides: David Garnett’s “Lady into Fox”

By Maud Ellmann

The publication of David Garnett’s first novel, Lady into Fox, shot the author into literary stardom, winning both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tate ...

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