Book review of "The Modernist Party" by Kate McLoughlin (ed). Edinburgh, UK, Edinburgh University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-4744-0141-8

Kuttainen, Victoria

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[Extract] This elegant gathering of essays addresses the significance of the party for the modernist period and its literature, both as a conduit for sociality and as a literary topos. It represents a brilliantly unique approach not only to the editorial task of shaping a collection of varied thematic conversations but also to gathering deeper material for a textual understanding of modernist literature. In the collection's reception room, Kate McLoughlin's marvelously clever introductory "Welcome From the Host" invites consideration of the great diversity of actual and fictional modernist parties: from the bland tea party or luncheon to the convivial cocktail soirée, the extended and often socially fraught dinner party, and the more risqué and bohemian house party, all of which lit and limned the modernist period in its salons, bookshops, living rooms, nightclubs, and artist studios.

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University of Tulsa

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