Contemporary Queer Modernism offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the intersections of queer studies and modernist studies.
The theoretical expansiveness and mutual overlapping of these still-growing fields is both introduced and complicated in the pages of this volume. Presenting a wide range of critical perspectives, the collection brings together original scholarship from both emerging and established scholars that, when read together, demonstrates the continued vitality of queer modernist studies. The book is divided into five parts:
Temporality Form Embodiment Networks Affect and Atmosphere
Contemporary Queer Modernism is a foundational collection that will be invaluable to scholars and students studying modernism and queer theory across a range of disciplines, including gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and performance.
Edited by:
Melanie Micir
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781032773421
ISBN 10: 1032773421
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 16 April 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part One: Temporality 1. The Queerness of Modernist Temporality: Modernist Literature, Sexual Science, and Queer Temporality 2. Dream Friend: Sexology, Child Study, and the Queer Imaginary Companion 3. Paris was a Lesbian: Women’s Liberation and the Re-Queering of Modernism 4. Posthumous Queer Modernism Part Two: Form 5. The Translucent Closet 6. Queer Formalism as Modernist Form, Modernist Form as Queer Formalism 7. The Lyric of Queer Modernisms 8. “The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible”: Queer Subversions of Life Writing 9. Geometric Kinship: Sensuous Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kineaesthetics Part Three: Embodiment 10. “A Queer Indefinite Way”: Richard Bruce Nugent, Nella Larsen, and New Negro Indeterminacy 11. So Queer Yet So Straight: Japan’s First Female Director(s) 12. They Were Right There Together: Black Abundance in Home to Harlem and Vernacular Indifference to Sexological Expertise 13. Queer Modernist Animals 14. The Rediscovery of Margaret Hoenig French Part Four: Networks 15. Out of Alignment: Queer Modernism’s Anarchist Legacy 16. The Pauper’s Salon: Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Lumpenproletariat 17. Modernism and the Queer Theory of Diaspora 18. On View: A Queer Theory of Modernist Practice 19. Queer or Describe? Alan Hollinghurst and the Bloomsbury Group Part Five: Affect and Atmosphere 20. Promiscuous Spaces: The Bookshop and Queer Eclecticism 21. Vaporous Vows: Queer Weather in Claude Hartland’s Story of a Life 22. Queer Affective Labor in Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends and Relations 23. Funny Emotions: Queer Theory, Affect, and Poetry
Melanie Micir is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis.
