The comedy of nature: Darwinian feminism in Virginia Woolf’s between the acts

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Queer natures
5. Charles Darwin, queer theorist 11
6. The comedy of nature: Darwinian feminism in Virginia Woolf’s between the acts 50
7. Art for science’s sake: Wilde in Whitman’s wilderness 90
8. Exfoliating modernist realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster 97
9. “Spectacles in color”: the primitive drag of Langston Hughes 106
10. Epilogue: the myth of nature 134
11. Part II. Queer mythologies
12. Fast books read slow: the shapes of speed in Manhattan transfer and the sun also rises 159
13. Making modernism new: queer mythology in the young and evil 194
14. American failurism: hart crane’s the bridge and Kenneth Burke’s paradox of purity 229
15. The cruelty of breeding: queer time in the waste land 258
16. Essays
17. The ancients and the queer moderns 271
18. Contrary / sexual / feeling 288
19. Late Sam see 300
20. Acknowledgments 309
21. Contributors 311
22. Index 313