Volume 20 | 2024 | Searching for the Truly Strong Man: Masculinities 1914-1945
Luke Seaber, University College London, Special Topic Editor
SEARCHING FOR THE TRULY STRONG MAN: MASCULINITIES 1914-1945
“Do Not Touch”: The Masculine Artist as Homemaker in Virginia Woolf’s Roger Fry: A Biography
Amrita Chakraborti, Jadavpur University
The “Savage Source” of Desire: White Masculinity, Primitivism, and the Specter of “Miscegenation”
David Magill, Longwood University
General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881-1942): The Sienkiewiczian Vir Incomparabilis of Interwar Poland
Izabella Parowicz, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Hero to Zero: The Adding Machine, the Cowboy Mythos, and the Dystopian Future of “them damn figgers!”
Jesse Cook, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“That Cagney Touch”: Marketing Masculinity in James Cagney’s Warner Bros. Comedies
Luke Holmaas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Suffering Bodies: The Making and Unmaking of British and American Communist Manhood in the Interwar Period
Lisa Jackson, University of California, Berkeley
Masculine Identity in E. M. Forster’s Maurice: Ascending to Max Stirner’s “Embodied Self”
Naomi van Overveld, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
GENERAL FEATURES
Detecting Attention: Fictions of Perception in Paintings of Fantômas
Tara Kraft-Ainsworth, University of Georgia
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERMODERNIST ARCHIVE
Introduction: Colors, Corruption, and “Breathing in Common” in Leida Kibuvits’s “Ladybirdred”
Eret Talviste,University of Tartu
"Ladybirdred," by Leida Kibuvitz, translated by Eret Talviste
NEW EDITIONS FROM THE SPACE BETWEEN
New Short Story Collections: The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924, edited by Alexandra Mitchell and Jennifer Nolan, and Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age, selected and introduced by David M. Earle.
Reviewed by Michelle Moore
BOOK REVIEWS
#MeToo and Modernism
Robin E. Field and Jerrica Jordan, editors
Reviewed by Laura Hartmann-Villalta
Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th Century British Fiction
Lauryl Tucker
Reviewed by Naomi Milthorpe
Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
Denise Khor
Reviewed by Alexander Howard
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Reviewed by Allison Nick
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons
Hannah Freed-Thall
Reviewed by Debra Rae Cohen
Virginia Woolf and Capitalism
Clara Jones, editor
Reviewed by John Attridge
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar Fiction
Melinda J. Cooper
Reviewed by Brigid Rooney
Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms
Elizabeth Blake
Reviewed by Lauryl Tucker
Modernist Short Fiction and Things
Aimée Gasston
Reviewed by Ashley Maher
Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity
Adam McKible
Review by Rachel Farebrother
Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System
Jordan Brower
Reviewed by Katherine Fusco
BOOKS OF NOTE
A list of recently published items of interest to our readership. Contact our book review editors when you are interested in reviewing.
CONTRIBUTORS
Biographies
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From the Editors