The Modernist party

Introduction: a welcome from the host / Kate McLoughlin

'The dinner was indeed quiet': domestic parties in the work of Joseph Conrad / Susan Jones

Prufrock, party-goer: tongue-tied at tea / Kate McLoughlin

Party Joyce: from the 'Dead' t when we 'Wake' / Jean-Michel Rabaté

'Looking at the party with you': pivotal moments in Katherine Mansfield's party stories / Angela Smith

Virginia Woolf's idea of a party / Bryony Randall

Proustian peristalsis: parties before, during and after / David R. Ellison

'Ezra through the open door': the parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as lesbian modernist cultural production / Joanne Winning

'Indeed everybody did come': parties, publicity and intimacy in Gertrude Stein's plays / Alex Goody

The interracial party of modernist primitivism and the black 'after-party' / Margo Natalie Crawford

The party in extremis in D.H. Lawrence's Women in love / Margot Norris

Bohemian retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, post-war memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club / Nathan Waddell

'Pleasure too often repeated': Aldous Huxley's modernity / Morag Shiach.