Dissensuous Modernism, livre ebook

Placing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, this book shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuous writing.

Contents

Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

1.H.D., Synesthete30

2.“choked by a robot!”: Technology, Gender, and the Battle of the Senses in Mina Loy’s Insel55

3.“. . . A zoom severed it”: Sensory Interruptions in Virginia Woolf’s

Between the Acts 92

4.Sensory Dystopia: Stifling Sounds, Sights, and Technologies in Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout126

Afterword 158

Notes 161

Works Cited 173

Index 185