Modernism and Affect

In 12 original essays, this collection aims to present new scholarship in the fields of modernist literature, film, dance, visual art, architecture, and design emerging in the light of theory's 'affective turn'. Essays draw on a diverse range of affective theories to examine such concepts as happiness, melancholy, love, sympathy, cuteness, fear, trauma, and bliss in works by Proust, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf among others.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii
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Introduction: Modernism and Affect
pp 1-19
- By Julie Taylor, lectures in American literature at Northumbria University
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1 - Mind, Body and Embarrassment in Henry James's The Awkward Age
pp 20-38
- By John Attridge, lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
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2 - The Trauma of Form: Death Drive as Affect in À la recherche du temps perdu
pp 39-55
- By Robbie McLaughlan, lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University
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3 - Logic of the Heart: Affective Ethical Valuing in T. E. Hulme and Max Scheler
pp 56-74
- By Christos Hadjiyiannis, Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford
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4 - The Line that Binds: Climbing Narratives, Ropework and Epistolary Practice
pp 75-93
- By Abbie Garrington, lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth century literature at Newcastle University
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5 - The Amplification of Affect: Tension, Intensity and Form in Modern Dance
pp 94-110
- By Paul Atkinson, teaches communications and media within the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Australia, Michelle Duffy, senior lecturer in sociology at Federation University
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6 - Love and the Art Object
pp 111-130
- By Joanne Winning, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London
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7 - Animating Cane: Race, Affect, History and Jean Toomer
pp 131-147
- By Julie Taylor, lectures in American literature at Northumbria University
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8 - Fear and Precarious Life after Political Representation in Baudelaire
pp 148-166
- By Richard Cole, doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta
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9 - Bloom-Space of Theory: The Pleasure and the Bliss of Gerty MacDowell
pp 167-184
- By Maria-Daniella Dick, lecturer in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow
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10 - From Odysseus to Rotpeter: Adorno and Kafka, Mimicry and Happiness
pp 185-202
- By Doug Haynes, teaches American literature at the University of Sussex
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11 - Making Happy, Happy-making: The Eameses and Communication by Design
pp 203-225
- By Justus Nieland, Professor of English at Michigan State University
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Index
pp 226-230
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Modernism and Affect
pp 1-19

1 - Mind, Body and Embarrassment in Henry James's The Awkward Age
pp 20-38

2 - The Trauma of Form: Death Drive as Affect in À la recherche du temps perdu
pp 39-55

3 - Logic of the Heart: Affective Ethical Valuing in T. E. Hulme and Max Scheler
pp 56-74

4 - The Line that Binds: Climbing Narratives, Ropework and Epistolary Practice
pp 75-93

5 - The Amplification of Affect: Tension, Intensity and Form in Modern Dance
pp 94-110

6 - Love and the Art Object
pp 111-130

7 - Animating Cane: Race, Affect, History and Jean Toomer
pp 131-147

8 - Fear and Precarious Life after Political Representation in Baudelaire
pp 148-166

9 - Bloom-Space of Theory: The Pleasure and the Bliss of Gerty MacDowell
pp 167-184

10 - From Odysseus to Rotpeter: Adorno and Kafka, Mimicry and Happiness
pp 185-202

11 - Making Happy, Happy-making: The Eameses and Communication by Design
pp 203-225

Index
pp 226-230

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