This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, it significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism.
List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Modernist Studies and Cultural Studies Becoming-Modernists: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein The Great War, Hysterical Men and the Modernist Lyric Dada, Cyborgs and the New Woman in New York Fashions for Genius and the Flâneur: A Guide to Paris Carnival Bodies, the Grotesque and Becoming-Animal Wandering and Wondering: Jewish Identity and Minority Writing Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
