Modernism and Masculinity

Natalya Lusty, Julian Murphet

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781107020252
• eBook ISBN: 9781139898539
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Women Authors
• Index: Literature

Modernism and Masculinity investigates the varied dimensions and manifestations of masculinity in the modernist period. Thirteen essays from leading scholars reframe critical trends in modernist studies by examining distinctive features of modernist literary and cultural work through the lens of masculinity and male privilege. The volume attends to masculinity as an unstable horizon of gendered ideologies, subjectivities and representational practices, allowing for fresh interdisciplinary treatments of celebrated and lesser-known authors, artists and theorists such as D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Henry Roth, Theodor Adorno and Paul Robeson as well as modernist avant-garde movements such as vorticism, surrealism and futurism. As diverse as the masculinities that were played out across the early twentieth century, the approaches and arguments featured in this collection will appeal especially to scholars and students of modernist literature and culture, gender studies and English literature more broadly.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Modernism and Its Masculinities
• Part I Fields of Production
• Part II Masculinity in Crisis
• Part III New Men
• Part IV Masculine Form
• Chapter 12 Stag Party: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Vorticist Organicism
• Chapter 13 Bravura or Bravado? Reading Ezra Pound’s Cantos
• Index