Introduction
Melanie Micir
Part One: Temporality
1. The Queerness of Modernist Temporality: Modernist Literature, Sexual Science, and Queer Temporality
Jana Funke
2. Dream Friend: Sexology, Child Study, and the Queer Imaginary Companion
Ellen Crowell
3. Paris was a Lesbian: Women’s Liberation and the Re-Queering of Modernism
Jaime Harker
4. Posthumous Queer Modernism
Jodie Medd
Part Two: Form
5. The Translucent Closet
Benjamin Kahan
6. Queer Formalism as Modernist Form, Modernist Form as Queer Formalism
Octavio R. González
7. The Lyric of Queer Modernisms
Julia Bloch
8. “The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible”: Queer Subversions of Life Writing
Todd G. Nordgren
9. Geometric Kinship: Sensuous Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kineaesthetics
Teagan Bradway
Part Three: Embodiment
10. “A Queer Indefinite Way”: Richard Bruce Nugent, Nella Larsen, and New Negro Indeterminacy
GerShun Avilez
11. So Queer Yet So Straight: Japan’s First Female Director(s)
Xinyi Zhao
12. They Were Right There Together: Black Abundance in Home to Harlem and Vernacular Indifference to Sexological Expertise
Emma Heaney
13. Queer Modernist Animals
Cliff Mak
14. The Rediscovery of Margaret Hoening French
Scott Herring
Part Four: Networks
15. Out of Alignment: Queer Modernism’s Anarchist Legacy
Eric Keenaghan
16. The Pauper’s Salon: Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Lumpenproletariat
Glyn Salton-Cox
17. Modernism and the Queer Theory of Diaspora
Nadine Attewell
18. On View: A Queer Theory of Modernist Practice
Tirza True Latimer
19. Queer or Describe? Alan Hollinghurst and the Bloomsbury Group
Charlie Tyson
Part Five: Affect and Atmosphere
20. Promiscuous Spaces: The Bookshop and Queer Eclecticism
Huw Osborne
21. Vaporous Vows: Queer Weather in Claude Hartland’s Story of a Life
Benjamin Bateman
22. Queer Affective Labor in Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends and Relations
Tiffany D. Ball
23. Funny Emotions: Queer Theory, Affect, and Poetry
Brian Glavey
Biography
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.
