Modernism and Masculinity

Natalya Lusty is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (2007) and, with Helen Groth, Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (2013). She is currently writing a book on feminist manifestos and the history of radical feminism. Julian Murphet is Professor in Modern Film and Literature and Director of the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia at the University of New South Wales. His publications include Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge, 2009), Literature and Visual Technologies (2003), and Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge, 2001). He has previously co-edited books on J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy. He is the editor of the new journal in Modernist studies, Affirmations: Of the Modern.

'… offers a rich and complex understanding of this period's literary and cultural landscape that begins to address the anxious responses of modernist men to their identities and their arts.' D. E. Magill, Choice

• 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.