Susan Sontag (Routledge Revivals) (The Elegiac Modernist)

First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst if culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. Sohnya Sayres looks into the foundations and directions of Sontag’s imposing work and in doing so discovers a unity of design and subject that Sontag has only recently acknowledged to have been an ambition all along. A comprehensive analysis of the work of a remarkable intellectual, this title will be of value to any student of American modernism and literary life.