Bad modernisms / Douglas Mao & Rebecca L. Walkowitz, editors.

Other author Mao, Douglas, 1966-
Other author Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Description365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
English literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction : modernisms bad and new / Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Forced exile : Walter Pater's queer modernism / Heather K. Love -- The aftershocks of blast : manifestos, satire, and the rear-guard of modernism / Martin Puchner -- Nonsense modernism : the limits of modernity and the feelings of philosophy in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Michael LeMahieu -- The romance of cliché : E.M. Hull, D.H. Lawrence, and interwar erotic fiction / Laura Frost -- Virginia Woolf's evasion : critical cosmopolitanism and British modernism / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Black venus, blonde venus / Sianne Ngai -- The black dandy as bad modernist / Monica L. Miller -- A shaman in common : Lewis, Auden, and the queerness of liberalism / Douglas Mao -- The gorgeous laughter of Filipino modernity : Carlos Bulosan's The laughter of my father / Joshua L. Miller -- Hit-man modernism / Lisa Fluet -- Cultures of impression / Jesse Matz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-352) and index.
LCCN 2005028235
ISBN0822337843 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822337975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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