Libidinal Currents

Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism

By: Joseph Allen Boone

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Paperback | 3 February 1998 | Edition Number 1

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From Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, modern fiction surges with libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, Joseph Allen Boone argues, these modern fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism.

Challenging overarching theories of the novel by carefully mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. The most ambitious study yet written on the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, Boone's Libidinal Currents will be a landmark book in the study of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Psychology Sexual Behaviour Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Sociology & Anthropology

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Modernity's Fictions of Sexuality: Definitions / Parameters / Desires	p. 1
Policing and Depolicing the Theory of the Novel: Repression, Transgression, and the Erotics of "Heretic Narrative" in "Victorian" Fiction	p. 32
Villette	p. 33
Channeling the Floods of Desire: Women, Water, and the Plot of Sexual Awakening in Turn-of-the-Century Narrative	p. 62
The Awakening: Swimming into the Unknown	p. 73
The Virgin and the Gipsy: "Listen for the Voice of the Water"	p. 93
Dora: (Freud's) Wet Dreams	p. 115
Modernist Theaters of the Mind I: Staging Sexuality in the Flux of Consciousness	p. 142
Ulysses: (Re)Staging Sexuality in "Circe", Performing (as) "Penelope"	p. 151
Mrs. Dalloway: Representing "the Unseen Part of Us, Which Spreads Wide"	p. 172
Theaters of the Mind II: Queer Sites in Modernism: Harlem / The Left Bank / Greenwich Village in the 1920s and 1930s	p. 204
"Smoke, Lilies, and Jade": Harlem as a Homo State of Mind	p. 220
Nightwood: Worlds of Night in the City of Light	p. 232
The Young and Evil: A Walk on the Wild Side	p. 251
Strange Brother: Strange Passages	p. 265
Under the Shadow of Fascism: Oedipus, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Paternal Narrative	p. 288
Absalom, Absalom!: Creation by the Father's Fiat	p. 298
The Man Who Loved Children: At the Crossroads of Myth and Psychoanalysis	p. 323
Fragmented Selves, Mythic Descents, and Third World Geographies: Fifties' Writing Gone Mad	p. 352
Alexandria Quartet: Homoerotic Negotiations in Colonial Narrative	p. 364
The Golden Notebook: Sex-Race Wars on the Frontier	p. 389
Afterword	p. 419
Notes	p. 425
Index	p. 497
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