Bad modernisms Introduction : modernisms bad and new Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz Forced exile : Walter Paters 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 Wittgensteins Tractatus Michael LeMahieu The romance of cliche : E.M. Hull D.H. Lawrence and interwar erotic fiction Laura Frost Virginia Woolfs 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 Bulosans The laughter of my father Joshua L. Miller Hit man modernism Lisa Fluet Cultures of impression Jesse Matz.