Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form

A nuanced examination of masculine privilege, mobility, and the queer possibilities of desire in Anglo-American modernist fiction.

The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire. Refusing to take white masculinity for granted, Daniel Hannah considers how the canonical novels of modernist fiction explore the ways that privilege is propped up and driven by factors of race, place, gender, and sexuality.