Bad Modernisms

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Bad Modernisms

Edited by: Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz
With contributions by: Heather K. Love and Martin Puchner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387824

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About this book

Collection of essays on the ways in which modernist literature, film, and art transgressed the artistic and cultural norms we associate we "high" modernism.

Author / Editor information

Douglas Mao is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation and a coeditor of several books, including The Turn to Ethics.

Reviews

“Bright, disquieting, and energetic, these essays bring back to life the complex political and artistic provocations of their modernisms. Badly needed.”—Rachel Bowlby, author of Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“I envision Bad Modernisms as a linchpin in the ‘new modernist studies.’ This sprightly, compelling volume gives us a map for that conversation; offers a guide to the tangled pathways of history, criticism, and cultural practice that converge in modernist studies; and reveals the astonishingly ample, indeed global, playing field of the discourse of modernism.”—Jennifer Wicke, author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Forced Exile: Walter Pater’s Queer Modernism Heather K. Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of Modernism Martin Puchner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Nonsense Modernism: The Limits of Modernity and the Feelings of Philosophy in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Michael LeMahieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction Laura Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Virginia Woolf’s Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism Rebecca L. Walkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Black Venus, Blonde Venus Sianne Ngai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist Monica L. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
A Shaman in Common: Lewis, Auden, and the Queerness of Liberalism Douglas Mao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
The Gorgeous Laughter of Filipino Modernity: Carlos Bulosan’s The Laughter of My Father Joshua L. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Hit-Man Modernism Lisa Fluet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Cultures of Impression Jesse Matz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 41 b&w photos

eBook

Published: April 14, 2006
ISBN: 9780822387824