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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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-352) and index.

Contributor:

Mao, Douglas, 1966-
Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-

ISBN:

0822337843 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0822337975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

61761645