Bad modernisms
By: edited by Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
Contributors: Mao, Douglas, 1966-; Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modernisms bad and new / Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz; title: Forced exile : Walter Pater's queer modernism / Heather K. Love; title: The aftershocks of blast : manifestos, satire, and the rear-guard of modernism / Martin Puchner; title: Nonsense modernism : the limits of modernity and the feelings of philosophy in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Michael LeMahieu; title: The romance of cliche : E.M. Hull, D.H. Lawrence, and interwar erotic fiction / Laura Frost; title: Virginia Woolf's evasion : critical cosmopolitanism and British modernism / Rebecca L. Walkowitz; title: Black venus, blonde venus / Sianne Ngai; title: The black dandy as bad modernist / Monica L. Miller; title: A shaman in common : Lewis, Auden, and the queerness of liberalism / Douglas Mao; title: The gorgeous laughter of Filipino modernity : Carlos Bulosan's The laughter of my father / Joshua L. Miller; title: Hit-man modernism / Lisa Fluet; title: Cultures of impression / Jesse Matz.