Framing Pieces

In Framing Pieces Whittier-Ferguson recovers and explores drafts notes glosses essays and guides that high modernists such as James Joyce Virginia Woolf T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound generated in order to interpret their own work. These archival materials reveal a complex picture of how texts like Finnegan''s Wake A Room of One''s Own Three Guineas and ABC''s of Reading were annotated and framed by their authors and how the authors illuminated and obscured various aspects of the annotations. Whittier-Ferguson also examines the first editions and periodicals in which these works appeared to show how modernist writers gauged the extent of their audience and tried to control their readers'' encounters with their writing.