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Book SynopsisEmploying diverse theoretical approaches, the essays in this volume show how modernism produced imaginative rethinkings of sex, gender and sexuality. Critics discuss the intersection with historical developments and how this questioned the fundamentals of identity and fixity of gender.
Table of ContentsModernism and its margins - Hugh Stevens; the case of Edith Ellis; "The generation of the green carnation" - sexual degeneration, the representation of male homosexuality and the limits of Yeats's sympathy; withholding the name - translating gender in Cather's "On the Gull's Road"; femininity slashed - suffragette militancy, modernism and gender; arabesque, Marie Laurencin, decadence and decorative excess; modernity, labour and the typewriter; heartless modernism; the manufacture of inefficiency - Vorticists and other delinquents; "That imperial stomach is not seat for ladies" - Jamesian shame, World War I and the politics of identification Woolf, Stein and the drama of public women; true stories - "Orlando", life-writing and transgender narratives; the "Plumed Serpent" and the erotics of primitive masculinity; reading "Miss Amelia" - critical strategies in the construction of sex, gender, sexuality and the grotesque; in search of lost time - reading Hemingway's "Garden".
