The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents /
Frost, Laura Catherine,1967-
New York : Columbia University Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-279) and index.
Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure -- James Joyce and the scent of modernity -- Stein's tickle -- Orgasmi discipline: D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction -- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world -- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys -- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema -- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure.
Modernism (Literature)
Pleasure in literature.