Modernism and Masculinity

Modernism and Masculinity explores the varied dimensions and manifestations of masculinity in modernist literature and culture.

Introduction Natalya Lusty; Part I. Fields of Production: 1. 'Virile Thought': modernist maleness, poetic forms and practices Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 2. 'That Man in My Mouth': editing, masculinity and modernism Melissa Jane Hardie; 3. Towards a gendered media ecology Julian Murphet; Part II. Masculinity in Crisis: 4. Nothing to be done: masculinity and the emergence of Irish modernism Ronan McDonald; 5. Marvellous masculinity: futurist strategies of self-transfiguration through the maelstrom on modernity Cinzia Blum; 6. Surrealist masculinities: sexuality and the economies of experience Natalya Lusty; Part III. New Men: 7. The new womanly Mensch? Modernism, Jewish masculinity and Henry Roth's Call It Sleep Maren Linett; 8. Robeson agonistes James Donald; 9. The figure of Crusoe David Marriott; 10. 'What I don't seem to see at all is you': D. H. Lawrence's The Fox and the politics of masquerade Thomas Strychacz; Part IV. Masculine Form: 11. Engendering Adorno: on time and masculinity in modernist music Tyrus Miller; 12. Stag party: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and vorticist organicism Jessica Burstein; 13. Bravura or bravado? Reading Ezra Pound's Cantos Peter Nicholls.