Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial.Her books include I’m Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (Shearsman Books, 2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, Bloomsbury, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).With the support of a 2023-24 Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, she is researching and editing Anna Mendelssohn’s roman à clef, What a Performance. Her critical edition of Mendelssohn’s poetry received award recognition from the Society for Textual Scholarship in 2021.

Sara Crangle’s magnificent Anatomy explores Loy’s "balancing act between corpus and cosmos". For the boisterous materialism we customarily celebrate in Loy is everywhere shadowed by her equally passionate pursuit of an "esoteric Eros". Paradoxically, Crangle’s "anatomization" of Loy's work allows us finally to see it whole.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPreface: "[T]hat uncircumscribed entity, an Infinitarian": Loy the EsotericistPart I1. Hearts Absented & Newborn: Loy’s Esoteric ErosLoy the Initiate: Esotericism and Avant-GardismLoy the Adept: Esoteric ErosAncient and Atomic ErosPart IIIntroduction: Backs, Nerves, Eyes: From Proneness to Visionary Transcendence2. "The Supine Event"Spinal Irritations and Nerviness: Feminised LunacyDecadent Languor, Somnolence, and Male ViolenceEnchantment, Supinity, and the Hypnotic Gaze: Mesmerism and SpiritualismTelepathy, Voices, and Visions3. The Blind BackBlindsiding DorsalityBacking and Forthing: Pineal Eye, Fourth DimensionBibliographyIndex

Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial.Her books include I’m Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (Shearsman Books, 2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, Bloomsbury, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).With the support of a 2023-24 Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, she is researching and editing Anna Mendelssohn’s roman à clef, What a Performance. Her critical edition of Mendelssohn’s poetry received award recognition from the Society for Textual Scholarship in 2021.

Sara Crangle’s magnificent Anatomy explores Loy’s "balancing act between corpus and cosmos". For the boisterous materialism we customarily celebrate in Loy is everywhere shadowed by her equally passionate pursuit of an "esoteric Eros". Paradoxically, Crangle’s "anatomization" of Loy's work allows us finally to see it whole.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPreface: "[T]hat uncircumscribed entity, an Infinitarian": Loy the EsotericistPart I1. Hearts Absented & Newborn: Loy’s Esoteric ErosLoy the Initiate: Esotericism and Avant-GardismLoy the Adept: Esoteric ErosAncient and Atomic ErosPart IIIntroduction: Backs, Nerves, Eyes: From Proneness to Visionary Transcendence2. "The Supine Event"Spinal Irritations and Nerviness: Feminised LunacyDecadent Languor, Somnolence, and Male ViolenceEnchantment, Supinity, and the Hypnotic Gaze: Mesmerism and SpiritualismTelepathy, Voices, and Visions3. The Blind BackBlindsiding DorsalityBacking and Forthing: Pineal Eye, Fourth DimensionBibliographyIndex

Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial.Her books include I’m Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (Shearsman Books, 2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, Bloomsbury, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).With the support of a 2023-24 Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, she is researching and editing Anna Mendelssohn’s roman à clef, What a Performance. Her critical edition of Mendelssohn’s poetry received award recognition from the Society for Textual Scholarship in 2021.

Sara Crangle’s magnificent Anatomy explores Loy’s "balancing act between corpus and cosmos". For the boisterous materialism we customarily celebrate in Loy is everywhere shadowed by her equally passionate pursuit of an "esoteric Eros". Paradoxically, Crangle’s "anatomization" of Loy's work allows us finally to see it whole.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPreface: "[T]hat uncircumscribed entity, an Infinitarian": Loy the EsotericistPart I1. Hearts Absented & Newborn: Loy’s Esoteric ErosLoy the Initiate: Esotericism and Avant-GardismLoy the Adept: Esoteric ErosAncient and Atomic ErosPart IIIntroduction: Backs, Nerves, Eyes: From Proneness to Visionary Transcendence2. "The Supine Event"Spinal Irritations and Nerviness: Feminised LunacyDecadent Languor, Somnolence, and Male ViolenceEnchantment, Supinity, and the Hypnotic Gaze: Mesmerism and SpiritualismTelepathy, Voices, and Visions3. The Blind BackBlindsiding DorsalityBacking and Forthing: Pineal Eye, Fourth DimensionBibliographyIndex