Elsa Högberg is Research Fellow at the Department of English, Uppsala University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy (2020) and co-editor, with Amy Bromley, of Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

This compelling book demonstrates the pivotal role of modernist aesthetics in the cultivation of modern intimacies. Ranging widely across media, these essays explore intimacy through the affects, forms, and proximate histories that made private life – for the moderns – a public and deeply political matter. A smart pre-history of the mediated intimacy of the contemporary.

• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction by Elsa Högberg Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism, Axel Englund Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure, Laura FrostBurning Feminism: Virginia Woolf’s Laboratory of Intimacy, Jane Goldman ‘Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately’: Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, Bryony Randall An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and A Jesus That Bloomsbury Could Live With, Todd Avery Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, Elsa Högberg ‘Me you – you – me’: Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy, Sanja Bahun The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary, Laura Marcus Leonora Carrington’s Poetics of Listening, Anna Watz ‘Je me trouve très sympathique’: Dada Intimacies, Marius Hentea Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941–45, Claire Davison The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space, Saikat MajumdarIndex

Elsa Högberg is Research Fellow at the Department of English, Uppsala University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy (2020) and co-editor, with Amy Bromley, of Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

This compelling book demonstrates the pivotal role of modernist aesthetics in the cultivation of modern intimacies. Ranging widely across media, these essays explore intimacy through the affects, forms, and proximate histories that made private life – for the moderns – a public and deeply political matter. A smart pre-history of the mediated intimacy of the contemporary.

• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction by Elsa Högberg Bodies of Water: Fontane, Mann and the Private Performance of Wagnerian Eroticism, Axel Englund Stories of O: Modernism and Female Pleasure, Laura FrostBurning Feminism: Virginia Woolf’s Laboratory of Intimacy, Jane Goldman ‘Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately’: Intimate Things in Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, Bryony Randall An Occasion of Intimacy: Duncan Grant, Paul Roche and A Jesus That Bloomsbury Could Live With, Todd Avery Cold Intimacy: Compassion, Precarity and Violence in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, Elsa Högberg ‘Me you – you – me’: Mina Loy and the Art of Ethnographic Intimacy, Sanja Bahun The Intimacies of the Modernist Diary, Laura Marcus Leonora Carrington’s Poetics of Listening, Anna Watz ‘Je me trouve très sympathique’: Dada Intimacies, Marius Hentea Overlapping Intimacies: Russian Fever, Domestic Morale and the BBC Home Service, 1941–45, Claire Davison The Modernist Nonmodern: Provincialism and the Intimacy of Space, Saikat MajumdarIndex