{"product_id":"the-gift-by-h-d-the-complete-text-paperback","title":"The Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eD. H.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this complete, unabridged edition of H.D.'s visionary memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane Augustine makes available for the first time the text as H.D. wrote it and intended it to be read, including H.D.'s coda to the book, her \"Notes,\" never before published in its entirety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in London during the blitz of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e re-creates the peaceful childhood of Hilda Doolittle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1886. As an antidote to war's destructiveness, H.D. invokes the mystical Moravian heritage of her mother's family to convey an ideal world peace and salvation that would come through the spiritual power of women--a power that also endowed her with \"the gift\" of her own art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough H.D.'s androgynous signature first associated her with early 20th-century Imagist poetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies her continuing innovations in prose. She uses the child-voice, flashback, and stream-of-consciousness techniques reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Dorothy Richardson, but expands the genre of memoir through free-associative meditations on myth and her lengthy essayistic \"Notes\" on Moravian history, emphasizing the pioneer missionaries' rapport with Native Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e is key to intertextual studies of H.D.'s wartime oeuvre and to an understanding of the religious and gender concerns pervading her later work, especially the women-centered poems \u003ci\u003eTrilogy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHelen in Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugustine's introduction and annotations, based on extensive research in Moravian archives, provide a biographical and historical context to make this the definitive edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, essential to students and scholars of H.D., modernism, and feminist literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eH.D.\u003c\/b\u003e (born Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) was an American expatriate writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose.\u003cb\u003e Jane Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, scholar of women in modernity, and the editor of H.D.'s \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e. She is professor emerita of English and humanities at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and occasional faculty at Naropa University, Boulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 338\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50362636566765,"sku":"9780813068350","price":45.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/TBU8pNdOuP9780813068350.webp?v=1785407011","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/the-gift-by-h-d-the-complete-text-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}