Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New 1
5. Forced Exile: Walter Pater’s Queer Modernism 19
6. The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of Modernism 44
7. Nonsense Modernism: The Limits of Modernity and the Feelings of Philosophy in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus 68
8. The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction 94
9. Virginia Woolf’s Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism 119
10. Black Venus, Blonde Venus 145
11. The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist 179
12. A Shaman in Common: Lewis, Auden, and the Queerness of Liberalism 206
13. The Gorgeous Laughter of Filipino Modernity: Carlos Bulosan’s The Laughter of My Father 238
14. Hit-Man Modernism 269
15. Cultures of Impression 298
16. Bibliography 331
17. Notes on Contributors 353
18. Index 355