American Modernism across the Arts

Contents: Jay Bochner: The Coming Storm of Modernism - Michael Golston: Hidden Topographies: Ideologies of Rhythm in American Science and Aesthetics: 1890-1940 - Allan Antliff: Interpellating Modernity: Cubism and 'La Vie Unanime' in America - Irene Gammel: The Baroness Elsa and the Politics of Transgressive Body Talk - Mary O'Connor: The Objects of Modernism: Everyday Life in Women's Magazines, Gertrude Stein, and Margaret Watkins - Stephen Scobie: "I Is Another": Autobiography and the Appropriation of Voice - Nina van Gessel: "The Art of Life": Editing Domesticity in Margaret Anderson's My Thirty Years War - Jonathan Gill: It Is Necessarily So: The Yiddish Blackface of Porgy and Bess - Justin D. Edwards: Carl Van Vechten's Sexual Tourism in Jazz Age Harlem - George Piggford: "Beat(ing) Gerty Stein on Her Own Ground": Hart Crane's Poetry of Narcissism - Robert K. Martin: Myths of Native Masculinity: Hart Crane and the Poem of the Nation - Bonnie Kime Scott: Djuna Barnes's Migratory Modernism - Peter Gibian: People Movers: Snow, Pound, Muybridge and the Stop-Action Arts of Consumer Culture - Yves Deschamps: Montréal Moderne, U.S. Moderne - Alan Trachtenberg: The Modernist City of Film Noir: The Case of Murder, My Sweet .

The Editors: Jay Bochner is Professor of English at the Université de Montréal. He is author of Blaise Cendrars: Discovery and Re-Creation and editor of Cendrars and Henry Miller's correspondence. He is working on a second Cendrars book and a study of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle.
Justin D. Edwards has published scholarly essays on D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Henry James, and Canadian modernism. He is currently working on a book-length study of American travel literature.