Handbook of Modernism Studies

Jean-Michel Rabaté, professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) since 1992, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and one of the editors of the Journal of Modern Literature. Co-founder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, he has authored or edited more than thirty-five volumes on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and philosophy. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis  (2014), and the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture and Politics (2015).

“An invaluable resource for literary theorists and modernism scholars … Highly recommended.” Choice"A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration of the divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that are transforming our sense of how modernism was, is, and one day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level of engagement with modernist studies." Maria DiBattista, Princeton University“Jean-Michel Rabaté’s expertly assembled Handbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literary texts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-date Continental theory. The 25 essays included here are as comprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated.” Marjorie Perloff“This superb collection of new essays by leading figures in the field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet also excitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism in our time ... Indispensible for both experts and newcomers to the field.” Sianne Ngai, Stanford University

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Jean-Michel Rabaté1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as “Theory” 15Peter Nicholls2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35Vicki Mahaffey3 Modernisms High and Low 55Eric Bulson4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75Vivian Liska5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87Jeremy Braddock6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107John Marx7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123Catherine Flynn8 Reactionary Modernism 139Robert L. Caserio9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157Matthew Hart10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173Shanyn Fiske11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193Christopher Bush12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209Steven G. Yao13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225Dirk Van Hulle14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239Laura Marcus15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts 255Maud Ellmann16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281Bill Brown17 Glamour’s Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297Judith Brown18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313Marian Eide19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327Sara Crangle20 Queer Modernism 347Benjamin Kahan21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363James F. English22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379Joseph Valente23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399Ewa Plonowska Ziarek24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415Jonathan Loesberg25 Rancière’s Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431Molly Anne RothenbergIndex 445