Modernist intimacies / edited by Elsa Högberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Högberg, Elsa, Author.

Contributor:

Högberg, Elsa, 1983- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-4186-6

1-3995-0185-2

1-4744-4185-8

OCLC:

1306541809