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Volume 20 | 2024 | Searching for the Truly Strong Man: Masculinities 1914-1945

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A SPECIAL TOPICS ISSUE FROM THE SPACE BETWEEN
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 San Francisco

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 Kibuvits, 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 E. 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
 

Contents of this path:

  1. “Do Not Touch”: The Masculine Artist as Homemaker in Virginia Woolf’s Roger Fry: A Biography
  2. The “Savage Source” of Desire: White Masculinity, Primitivism, and the Specter of “Miscegenation”
  3. General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881-1942): The Sienkiewiczian Vir Incomparabilis of Interwar Poland
  4. Hero to Zero: The Adding Machine, the Cowboy Mythos, and the Dystopian Future of “them damn figgers!”
  5. “That Cagney Touch”: Marketing Masculinity in James Cagney’s Warner Bros. Comedies
  6. Suffering Bodies: The Making and Unmaking of British and American Communist Manhood in the Interwar Period
  7. Masculine Identity in E. M. Forster’s Maurice: Ascending to Max Stirner’s “Embodied Self”
  8. Detecting Attention: Fictions of Perception in Paintings of Fantômas
  9. Introduction: Colors, Corruption, and “Breathing in Common” in Leida Kibuvits’s “Ladybirdred”
  10. "Ladybirdred" by Leida Kibuvits
  11. Review Essay | New Short Story Collections
  12. Review | #MeToo and Modernism
  13. Review | Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th Century British Fiction
  14. Review | Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
  15. Review | New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
  16. Review | Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons
  17. Review | Virginia Woolf and Capitalism
  18. Review | Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar Fiction
  19. Review | Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms
  20. Review | Modernist Short Fiction and Things
  21. Review | Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity
  22. Review | Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System
  23. Books of Note
  24. 2024 Contributors
  25. Volume 20 | From the Editors of The Space Between