Modernist Intimacies

Elsa Högberg

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Modernist Intimacies

Elsa Högberg

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474441858

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Illuminates the new and unsettling forms of intimacy explored in modernist literature and art

Opens up fresh perspectives on modernism as central to early twentieth-century explorations of new modes of intimacy, many of which shape today’s social and political life
Offers a timely account of modernist intimacies, where experts elucidate a wide spectrum of modernist texts from within the emergent field of intimacy studies
Provides original and innovative definitions of intimacy that will be valuable for research and teaching in literary subjects

Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of sociopolitical realities, and the twelve chapters present incisive, original perspectives on intimacy as a vital dimension of modernist aesthetic and social practices. They engage topics from music-making, wartime radio broadcasting and transnational relations to diary-writing, sexual pleasure, queer religiosity and same-sex love. In attending to a wide range of print literary texts as well as other media such as church murals and sonic archives, the book also points to the resonance of modernist intimacies in our own time.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Elsa Högberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism Axel Englund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2 Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure Laura Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3 Burning Feminism: Virginia Woolf ’s Laboratory of Intimacy Jane Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4 ‘Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately’: Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap Bryony Randall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5 An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and a Jesus that Bloomsbury Could Live With Todd Avery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6 Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts Elsa Högberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7 ‘Me you—you—me’: Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy Sanja Bahun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary Laura Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
9 Leonora Carrington’s Poetics of Listening Anna Watz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
10 ‘Je me trouve très sympathique’: Dada Intimacies Marius Hentea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
11 Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941–5 Claire Davison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
12 The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space Saikat Majumdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Other: 1 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474441858