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Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature

Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945

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Authors:
  1. Allan Johnson

    1. University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

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  • Offers the first sustained account of how the literary uses of castration and impotence resituated modernist aesthetics
  • Explicates the history of how interwar writers reimagined material medical issues
  • Provides evidence of alternative views of male psychosexualities in the 1919-1945 period
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Fisher King’s Wound

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 19-50

  4. The Cloud of Unknowing

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 51-78

  5. Rituals of Mourning

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 79-106

  6. Cupio Dissolvi

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 107-136

  7. The Sense of a Beginning

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 137-164

  8. Conclusion

    • Allan Johnson
    Pages 165-168

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 169-173
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About this book

This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

    Allan Johnson

About the author

Allan Johnson is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.  He is the author of Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence (Palgrave, 2014) and numerous articles on modernism, esotericism, gender studies, and narrative theory. He has previously taught at the University of Leeds, Birkbeck University of London, and City University of Hong Kong.

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