Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist (review)

Legacy ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-256
Author(s):  
Karen Kaivola
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Scott

The collected poems of Evelyn Scott

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (07) ◽  
pp. 43-3908-43-3908
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Scott

scholarly journals Evelyn Scott

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K Borgstrom
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Scott

Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce E. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
English History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evelyn Scott ◽  
American Author ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
The Waves

This essay concerns the parallel careers of English author Virginia Woolf and American author Evelyn Scott, focusing primarily on Woolf’s novel The Waves (1931) and on Scott’s The Wave (1929), a historical novel about the American Civil War. Despite their strikingly similar titles, these modernist novels have never been compared, likely due to their very different subject matter. This essay posits that both authors felt that history should be told through accounts of ordinary people; though Woolf’s planned book project of telling English history through obscure lives was never completed, Scott’s The Wave tells the history of the Civil War by shifting through the perspectives of numerous characters as the war transfers energy from point to point, person to person. Woolf’s The Waves is similarly composed as a series of “soliloquies” of six individuals; both texts focus on the wave as a transfer of energy from character to character. Both authors further use the concept of the wave to demonstrate individuals as both alienated and part of a collective, focusing on the theme of subjective experience amid a larger tide of human history. While these women writers shared such points of tangency throughout their careers, they never met or corresponded.

"Pretty Good for a Woman": The Enigmas of Evelyn Scott

1986 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 504
Author(s):  
Linda Simon ◽  
D. A. Callard
Keyword(s):  
Good For ◽  
Evelyn Scott
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