Trotter, D;
Posthuman? Animal Corpses, Aeroplanes and Very High
Frequencies in the Work of Valentine Ackland and Sylvia
Townsend Warner.
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
, 20
(1)
pp. 39-62.
10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.21.
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to establish the critical significance and value of work which was the product of the unique creative partnership developed by Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner during the 1930s. During that period, I argue, they imagined more variously and more incisively together, through mutual awareness and acceptance, than they would in all likelihood have done had they never met and fallen in love. An understanding of the sharp differences in temperament, outlook and reputation which precluded full-scale collaboration freed each of them, in turn,to pursue contrasting aspects of concerns held in common. So adventurous was that pursuit, at times, that it merits comparison with recent investigationsof the idea of the ‘posthuman’. Since Warner was by far the moreprolific author, I have tried to balance my account of her partnership with Ackland by drawing extensively not only on published fiction and poetry, but also on diaries and letters, and on a variety of other kinds of material from the archive.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Posthuman? Animal Corpses, Aeroplanes and Very High Frequencies in the Work of Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.21 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.21 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 2020, David Trotter. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | Valentine Ackland, Sylvia Townsend Warner, the 1930s, collaboration, the posthuman, aeroplanes, guns |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117038 |
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