Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: On Loss, Invention, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Aesthetics 1
6. Part I. Revolutionary Praxis and Its Melancholic Impasses
7. 1. On Suffrage Militancy and Modernism Femininity and Revolt 19
8. 2. Melancholia, Death of Art, and Women’s Writing 51
9. 3. Woolf’s Aesthetics of Potentiality 86
10. Part II. Female Bodies, Violence, and Form
11. Introduction: Rethinking the Form/Matter Divide in Feminist Politics and Aesthetics 123
12. 4. Abstract Commodity Form and Bare Life 128
13. 5. Damaged Materialities in Political Struggles and Aesthetic Innovations 157
14. Part III. Toward a Feminine Aesthetics of Renaissance
15. 6. The Enigma of Nella Larsen Letters, Curse, and Black Laughter 193
16. Notes 229
17. Index 251