| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism -- 2 Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure -- 3 Burning Feminism: Virginia Woolf 's Laboratory of Intimacy -- 4 'Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately': Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson's The Trap -- 5 An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and a Jesus that Bloomsbury Could Live With -- 6 Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts -- 7 'Me you -- you -- me': Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy -- 8 The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary -- 9 Leonora Carrington's Poetics of Listening -- 10 'Je me trouve très sympathique': Dada Intimacies -- 11 Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941-5 -- 12 The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space -- Index |
| Summary |
Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Literature, Modern.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Högberg, Elsa
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| ISBN |
9781474441858 |
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1474441858 |
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