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Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Elevated Realms is the first study book-length study devoted to Loy's affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loy's heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume considers Loy's engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy and physics; Christian Science and Theosophy. Attending to Loy's presentations of the upper half of the body heartscapes, spines, eyes and nerve centres Elevated Realms unearths the coordinates of Loy's esoteric Eros, a transcendent, orgasmic love that is cosmic, intimate, aesthetic and a corrective to women's disregarded satiation. The requisite counterpart to her acerbic feminist satires, Loy's Eros re-envisions abjectified, feminised posturing as a dorsality with the potential to access the beyond.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface: "[T]hat uncircumscribed entity, an Infinitarian": Loy the Esotericist
Part I
1. Hearts Absented & Newborn: Loy's Esoteric Eros
Loy the Initiate: Esotericism and Avant-Gardism
Loy the Adept: Esoteric Eros
Ancient and Atomic Eros
Part II
Introduction: Backs, Nerves, Eyes: From Proneness to Visionary Transcendence
2. "The Supine Event"
Spinal Irritations and Nerviness: Feminised Lunacy
Decadent Languor, Somnolence, and Male Violence
Enchantment, Supinity, and the Hypnotic Gaze: Mesmerism and Spiritualism
Telepathy, Voices, and Visions
3. The Blind Back
Blindsiding Dorsality
Backing and Forthing: Pineal Eye, Fourth Dimension
Bibliography
Index
