Modernist intimacies /

Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence.

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Other Authors: Högberg, Elsa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism
  • 2 Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure
  • 3 Burning Feminism: Virginia Woolf 's Laboratory of Intimacy
  • 4 'Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately': Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson's The Trap
  • 5 An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and a Jesus that Bloomsbury Could Live With
  • 6 Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
  • 7 'Me you
  • you
  • me': Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy
  • 8 The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary
  • 9 Leonora Carrington's Poetics of Listening
  • 10 'Je me trouve très sympathique': Dada Intimacies
  • 11 Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941-5
  • 12 The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space
  • Index