Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle demonstrates how Loy’s visceral focus propels a prescient, mystical feminist vision that aims to resituate marginalised subjects within modernist culture.

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy provides new thinking on Loy’s approach to the foundations of existence, exploring sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism, and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice with satire, showing how Loy resists modernist anti-sentimentality by devising a feminist satirical mode in which sardonic aggression generates intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance.

Loy’s attention to “low” body parts – feet, legs, genitals, bellies, wombs – is illuminated in chapters theorising her engagement with dissident sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women’s pleasure); pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse, the unsung counterpart to the poète maudit.

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Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle demonstrates how Loy’s visceral focus propels a prescient, mystical feminist vision that aims to resituate marginalised subjects within modernist culture.

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy provides new thinking on Loy’s approach to the foundations of existence, exploring sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism, and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice with satire, showing how Loy resists modernist anti-sentimentality by devising a feminist satirical mode in which sardonic aggression generates intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance.

Loy’s attention to “low” body parts – feet, legs, genitals, bellies, wombs – is illuminated in chapters theorising her engagement with dissident sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women’s pleasure); pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse, the unsung counterpart to the poète maudit.

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Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy

by Sara Crangle
Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy

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Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle demonstrates how Loy’s visceral focus propels a prescient, mystical feminist vision that aims to resituate marginalised subjects within modernist culture.

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy provides new thinking on Loy’s approach to the foundations of existence, exploring sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism, and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice with satire, showing how Loy resists modernist anti-sentimentality by devising a feminist satirical mode in which sardonic aggression generates intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance.

Loy’s attention to “low” body parts – feet, legs, genitals, bellies, wombs – is illuminated in chapters theorising her engagement with dissident sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women’s pleasure); pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse, the unsung counterpart to the poète maudit.


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ISBN-13: 9781399524292
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2025
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial.Her books include I’m Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (Shearsman Books, 2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, Bloomsbury, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2010).With the support of a 2023-24 Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, she is researching and editing Anna Mendelssohn’s roman à clef, What a Performance. Her critical edition of Mendelssohn’s poetry received award recognition from the Society for Textual Scholarship in 2021.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface. "Of the Cuttings a Garden of Ecstasy": Anatomising Mina Loy

Part I

Introduction. "About to be a Body": Loy’s Corporeality

1. Loy’s Atavistic Avant-Gardism

“Being Alive”: Sentience

“Primeval Recognitions”: Primitivism

“Trailing the Rest of the Animal Behind”: Evolution

“Cosmic Force”: Vitalism

2. Bodies Sacrificial & Intimate

“Passional Compromise”: Modernist Sentimental Economies

“Surplus Potency”: Sacrifice

“The Instigatory Caress”: Satire and Intimacy

“Transpierced Parts” and “Salvation”: Crucifixions

“‘Inordinate Chastity’”: Virgins

Part II

3. Feet, Legs, Genitals: The Pornographies of Loy’s Punctuation

*: Queer Pleasures, Women’s Pleasure

The Unsentimental Economy of Prostitution

Feminist Pornographies

The Traffic in Men: Punctuating the Sacred Gigolo

Collapsing, Soaring: Transcendent Fallenness

Derouted Soles, Phraseless Parentheses: Feet and Legs

•, – – –: Puncta and Desire Lines

4. "Upon Bossed Bellies": Loy & the Accursed Muse

The Accursed Poet

The Accursed Muse

Voicing Damnation: Loy’s Muses

The Stomach

Bibliography

Index

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