Background
DeSalvo, Louise Anita was born on September 27, 1942 in Jersey City. Daughter of Louis B. and Mildred N. (Calabrese) Sciacchetano.
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller by Louise DeSalvo (1995-11-01)
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Casting Off: A Novel
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller
(Challenging the conceptions of how and why works of liter...)
Challenging the conceptions of how and why works of literature are written, a literary group study examines the motivations of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller, noting their jealousies, frustrations, and obsessions. Tour.
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Casting Off by Louise Desalvo (2014-10-30)
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller Reprint edition by DeSalvo, Louise (1995) Paperback
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller
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Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the 1920s and '30s, an acclaimed biographer illuminates the dark motives behind masterpieces of 20th-century literature--particularly in the works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller. A daring analysis of much never-before-addressed material.
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Conceived With Malice: Literature As Revenge
("Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry...)
"Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller. This fascinating book examines the motive of revenge as a catalyst for the creative process. Evoking Bloomsbury & Paris in the twenties & thirties, acclaimed biographer Louise DeSalvo focuses on four famous literary partnerships where the written word was used as a weapon of revenge. Contents: Leonard & Virginia Woolf & "The Wise Virgins"; D. H. Lawrence & Ottoline Morrell & "Women in Love"; Djuna Barnes & "The Antiphon"; & Henry Miller & June Miller & "Crazy Cock". It will challenge our conceptions of how & why great works of literature are written.
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TERRITORIES OF THE VOICE
(1989, Paperback, 269 pages)
1989, Paperback, 269 pages
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Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental and societal expectations. In her revealing family memoir, DeSalvo sifts through painful memories to give voice to all that remained unspoken and unresolved in her life: a mother's psychotic depression, a father's rage and violent rigidity, a sister's early depression and eventual suicide, and emerging memories of childhood incest. At times humorous and often brutally candid, DeSalvo also delves through the more recent conflicts posed by marriage, motherhood, and the crisis that started her on the path of her life's work: becoming a writer in order to excavate the meaning of her life and community. In Vertigo, Louise DeSalvo paints a striking picture of the easy freedom of the husband and fatherless world of working-class Hoboken, New Jersey, the neighborhood of her early childhood, where mothers and children had an unaccustomed say in the running of their lives while men were off defending their country, but were jolted back into submission when World War II ended. Hoboken was not a place where girls were encouraged to develop their minds, or their independent spirits, yet it is that tenement-dotted city with its pulse and energy, wonderful Italian pastry, and sidewalk roller-skating contests, and not suburban Ridgefield, where the family moves when Louise is seven, that claims Louise’s heart. Written with an honesty that is as rare as it is unsettling, Vertigo also speaks to broader truths about the impact of ethnicity, class, and gender in American life. Offering inspiration and a healthy dose of subversion, this personal story of a writer’s life is also a study of the alchemy between lived experience and creativity, and the life-transforming possibilities of this process.
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Casting Off
(Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novel—sexy and smart...)
Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novel—sexy and smart, fresh and timeless—reminds us that the more women's lives have changed, the more they remain the same. Helen and Maive love their families and their men and their deep, honest friendship with each other. Their story might have been written yesterday, and is all the richer when we learn of its own long journey into the light."—Pamela Redmond Satran "Read this book and meet two ballsy, brazen women whose lives are as captivating as the friendship they share. In this exquisite novel, a new world is imagined in which women—married women—make bold choices about sex gleefully and without guilt. CASTING OFF is a keen, funny, and engrossing portrait of the culture in which we live, and two fascinating characters that fearlessly chart their own path."—Emily Bernard "Subversive, feminist, rich in dark humor and erotic intrigue, CASTING OFF opens up the friendship of two women saved by adultery from the deadening effects of childrearing, tedious husbands and sometimes disappointing lovers. Louise DeSalvo's mordant wit and intelligence sparkle through the escapades of Maive and passionate loves of Helen who, between them, perfect the craft of secret, extramarital sex. DeSalvo uses the beds of New York and New Jersey as pathways into a sexuality that encompasses female power in classical myth as well as daily life. Nancy Caronia's powerful, invaluable introduction situates the novel in a broad spectrum of writing by women. Louise DeSalvo, celebrated as a gifted memoirist and accomplished scholar and critic, has brought us a compelling novel."—Josephine G. Hendin "Once deemed 'immoral' and 'perverse,' CASTING OFF now takes its rightful place on North American bookshelves. Erotic and bold, DeSalvo's novel asks what it means for a woman to be sexual, creative, and free."—Julija Šukys
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller by Louise DeSalvo (1994-11-01)
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Louise Anita DeSalvo
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963; Master of Arts, New York University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1977.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson U., Teaneck, New Jersey, 1977-1981; professor, CUNY, since 1981.
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Works
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller
(Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the 1920s and '30s, an ac...)
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Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
( Born to immigrant parents during World War II and comin...)
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller
(Challenging the conceptions of how and why works of liter...)
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Conceived With Malice: Literature As Revenge
("Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry...)
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TERRITORIES OF THE VOICE
(1989, Paperback, 269 pages)
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Casting Off
(Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novel—sexy and smart...)
- Conceived With Malice Literature As Revenge In The Lives And Works Of Virginia And Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, And Henry Miller Uncorrected Proofs
- Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller by Louise DeSalvo (1995-11-01)
- Casting Off: A Novel
- Casting Off by Louise Desalvo (2014-10-30)
- Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller Reprint edition by DeSalvo, Louise (1995) Paperback
- Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller by Louise DeSalvo (1994-11-01)
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Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller
Connections
Married Ernest J. DeSalvo, December 22, 1963. Children: Jason, Justin.
