Bad Modernisms Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................vii
Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz - Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New....................1
Heather K. Love - Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism....................19
Martin Puchner - The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of Modernism....................44
Michael LeMahieu - Nonsense Modernism: The Limits of Modernity and the Feelings of Philosophy in Wittgenstein's Tractatus....................68
Laura Frost - The Romance of Clichi: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction....................94
Rebecca L. Walkowitz - Virginia Woolf's Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism....................119
Sianne Ngai - Black Venus, Blonde Venus....................145
Monica L. Miller - The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist....................179
Douglas Mao - A Shaman in Common: Lewis, Auden, and the Queerness of Liberalism....................206
Joshua L. Miller - The Gorgeous Laughter of Filipino Modernity: Carlos Bulosan's The Laughter of My Father....................238
Lisa Fluet - Hit-Man Modernism....................269
Jesse Matz - Cultures of Impression....................298
Bibliography....................331
Notes on Contributors....................353
Index....................355