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9780719051609

Modernist Sexualities

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719051609

  • ISBN10:

    0719051606

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-04-07
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary

Leading critics from Britain, Canada, and the US examine modernism's imaginative rethinkings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Original essays show how modernism intersects with the suffragette movement, technological change and its effects on women and labor, the growth of pseudo-scientific writings, and the burgeoning lesbian and gay movement. They show how modernism upsets the fixities of gender and sexuality through its fascination with ambiguities, marginality, and the crossing of borders. Sex reformers and sex changers, unsexed storytellers, typewriters, femme and butch experimenters, suffragettes in wide-brimmed hats, musical and dramatic pageants, adolescent delinquents, sunbathers, and dancing indigenes all play a role in the heterodox and varied modernism revealed in these essays.

Author Biography

Hugh Stevens is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Caroline Howlett is a freelance editor in Cambridge, England.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
List of contributors
viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: modernism and its margins 1(12)
Hugh Stevens
The case of Edith Ellis
13(28)
Jo-Ann Wallace
'The generation of the green carnation': sexual degeneration, the representation of male homosexuality, and the limits of Yeat's sympathy
41(15)
Jason Edwards
Withholding the name: translating gender in Cather's 'On the Gull's Road'
56(16)
Judith Butler
Femininity slashed: suffragette militancy, modernism and gender
72(20)
Caroline Howlett
Arabesque: Marie Laurencin, decadence and decorative excess
92(22)
Bridget Elliott
Modernity, labour and the typewriter
114(16)
Morag Shiach
Heartless modernism
130(17)
Con Coroneos
The manufacture of inefficiency: vorticists and other delinquents
147(20)
Geoff Gilbert
'That imperial stomach is no seat for ladies': Henry James, the First World War and the politics of identification
167(17)
Pamela Thurschwell
Woolf, Stein and the drama of public woman
184(18)
Marianne DeKoven
True stories: Orlando, life-writing, and transgender narratives
202(17)
Melanie Taylor
The Plumed Serpent and the erotics of primitive masculinity
219(20)
Hugh Stevens
Reading Miss Amelia: critical strategies in the construction of sex, gender, sexuality, the gothic and the grotesque
239(12)
Claire Whatling
In search of lost time: reading Hemingway's Garden
251(16)
Ira Elliott
Index 267

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