Introduction: A Welcome from the Host

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. The Menu iii
3. A Note of Thanks v
4. The Guest List vi
5. Introduction: A Welcome from the Host 1
6. 1. ‘The dinner was indeed quiet’: Domestic Parties in the Work of Joseph Conrad 25
7. 2. Prufrock, Party-Goer: Tongue-Tied at Tea 45
8. 3. Party Joyce: From the ‘Dead’ to When We ‘Wake’ 64
9. 4. ‘Looking at the party with you’: Pivotal Moments in Katherine Mansfi eld’s Party Stories 79
10. 5. Virginia Woolf’s Idea of a Party 95
11. 6. Proustian Peristalsis: Parties Before, During and After 112
12. 7. ‘Ezra through the open door’: The Parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as Lesbian Modernist Cultural Production 127
13. 8. ‘Indeed everybody did come’: Parties, Publicity and Intimacy in Gertrude Stein’s Plays 147
14. 9. The Interracial Party of Modernist Primitivism and the Black ‘After-Party’ 164
15. 10 The Party In Extremis in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love 178
16. 11. Bohemian Retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, Post-War Memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club 192
17. 12. ‘Pleasure too often repeated’: Aldous Huxley’s Modernity 210
18. Index 228