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Employing diverse theoretical approaches, the essays in this volume show how modernism intersects with historical developments such as the suffragette movement, technological change and its effects on women and labour, the growth of pseudo-scientific writings and the burgeoning lesbian and gay movement. They show how modernism questions the fundamentals of identity and upsets the fixities of gender and sexuality through a fascination with ambiguities, marginality and the crossing of borders. The book explores strategies of expressing same-sex desires in unexpected settings, modes of remaking sex and the body, relations between writing and reading, between public and private, between performer, performance and audience in a modernism broadly conceived to include political demonstrations, political essays and the visual arts alongside narrative and poetry.
Contents
Modernism and its margins - Hugh Stevens; the case of Edith Ellis; "The generation of the green carnation" - sexual degeneration, the representation of male homosexuality and the limits of Yeats's sympathy; withholding the name - translating gender in Cather's "On the Gull's Road"; femininity slashed - suffragette militancy, modernism and gender; arabesque, Marie Laurencin, decadence and decorative excess; modernity, labour and the typewriter; heartless modernism; the manufacture of inefficiency - Vorticists and other delinquents; "That imperial stomach is not seat for ladies" - Jamesian shame, World War I and the politics of identification Woolf, Stein and the drama of public women; true stories - "Orlando", life-writing and transgender narratives; the "Plumed Serpent" and the erotics of primitive masculinity; reading "Miss Amelia" - critical strategies in the construction of sex, gender, sexuality and the grotesque; in search of lost time - reading Hemingway's "Garden".
