Modernist Intimacies
Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of socio-political realities, and the twelve newly commissioned chapters present incisive, original perspectives on intimacy as a vital dimension of modernist aesthetic and social practices. They engage topics from music-making, wartime radio broadcasting and transnational relations to diary-writing, sexual pleasure, queer religiosity and same-sex love. In attending to a wide range of print literary texts as well as other media such as church murals and sonic archives, the book also points to the resonance of modernist intimacies in our own time.

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Modernist Intimacies
Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of socio-political realities, and the twelve newly commissioned chapters present incisive, original perspectives on intimacy as a vital dimension of modernist aesthetic and social practices. They engage topics from music-making, wartime radio broadcasting and transnational relations to diary-writing, sexual pleasure, queer religiosity and same-sex love. In attending to a wide range of print literary texts as well as other media such as church murals and sonic archives, the book also points to the resonance of modernist intimacies in our own time.

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Modernist Intimacies

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Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of socio-political realities, and the twelve newly commissioned chapters present incisive, original perspectives on intimacy as a vital dimension of modernist aesthetic and social practices. They engage topics from music-making, wartime radio broadcasting and transnational relations to diary-writing, sexual pleasure, queer religiosity and same-sex love. In attending to a wide range of print literary texts as well as other media such as church murals and sonic archives, the book also points to the resonance of modernist intimacies in our own time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474441841
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 01/25/2023
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elsa Högberg is Research Fellow at the Department of English, Uppsala University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy (2020) and co-editor, with Amy Bromley, of Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors

Introduction by Elsa Högberg

  1. Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism, Axel Englund
  2. Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure, Laura Frost
  3. Burning Feminism: Virginia Woolf’s Laboratory of Intimacy, Jane Goldman
  4. ‘Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately’: Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, Bryony Randall
  5. An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and A Jesus That Bloomsbury Could Live With, Todd Avery
  6. Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, Elsa Högberg
  7. ‘Me you – you – me’: Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy, Sanja Bahun
  8. The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary, Laura Marcus
  9. Leonora Carrington’s Poetics of Listening, Anna Watz
  10. ‘Je me trouve très sympathique’: Dada Intimacies, Marius Hentea
  11. Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941–45, Claire Davison
  12. The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space, Saikat Majumdar

Index

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