Contemporary Queer Modernism

Melanie Micir is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis.

Introduction Part One: Temporality 1. The Queerness of Modernist Temporality: Modernist Literature, Sexual Science, and Queer Temporality 2. Dream Friend: Sexology, Child Study, and the Queer Imaginary Companion 3. Paris was a Lesbian: Women’s Liberation and the Re-Queering of Modernism 4. Posthumous Queer Modernism Part Two: Form 5. The Translucent Closet 6. Queer Formalism as Modernist Form, Modernist Form as Queer Formalism 7. The Lyric of Queer Modernisms 8. “The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible”: Queer Subversions of Life Writing 9. Geometric Kinship: Sensuous Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kineaesthetics Part Three: Embodiment 10. “A Queer Indefinite Way”: Richard Bruce Nugent, Nella Larsen, and New Negro Indeterminacy 11. So Queer Yet So Straight: Japan’s First Female Director(s) 12. They Were Right There Together: Black Abundance in Home to Harlem and Vernacular Indifference to Sexological Expertise 13. Queer Modernist Animals 14. The Rediscovery of Margaret Hoenig French Part Four: Networks 15. Out of Alignment: Queer Modernism’s Anarchist Legacy 16. The Pauper’s Salon: Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Lumpenproletariat 17. Modernism and the Queer Theory of Diaspora 18. On View: A Queer Theory of Modernist Practice 19. Queer or Describe? Alan Hollinghurst and the Bloomsbury Group Part Five: Affect and Atmosphere 20. Promiscuous Spaces: The Bookshop and Queer Eclecticism 21. Vaporous Vows: Queer Weather in Claude Hartland’s Story of a Life 22. Queer Affective Labor in Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends and Relations 23. Funny Emotions: Queer Theory, Affect, and Poetry