Modernism, Sex, and Gender, Paperback

Description

Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The volume explores four key aspects of modernist literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist studies: women's contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; and the intersection of gender and sexuality with politics and law. Including brief case studies of such writers as May Sinclair and Radclyffe Hall, this book is a valuable guide for those looking to understand the history of critical thought on gender and sexuality in modernist studies today.

About the author

Celia Marshik is Professor of English at Stony Brook University, USA. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture (2015) and author of British Modernism and Censorship (2009) and At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture (2016).

Allison Pease is Professor of English at John Jay College, City University of New York, USA. She is author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity (2000), Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom (2012) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to "To the Lighthouse" (2014).