Introduction: modernism and its margins / Hugh Stevens 1
1 Case of Edith Ellis / Jo-Ann Wallace 13
2 'The generation of the green carnation': sexual degeneration, the representation of male homosexuality, and the limits of Yeat's sympathy / Jason Edwards 41
3 Withholding the name: translating gender in Cather's 'On the Gull's Road' / Judith Butler 56
4 Femininity slashed: suffragette militancy, modernism and gender / Caroline Howlett 72
5 Arabesque: Marie Laurencin, decadence and decorative excess / Bridget Elliott 92
6 Modernity, labour and the typewriter / Morag Shiach 114
7 Heartless modernism / Con Coroneos 130
8 Manufacture of inefficiency: vorticists and other delinquents / Geoff Gilbert 147
9 'That imperial stomach is no seat for ladies': Henry James, the First World War and the politics of identification / Pamela Thurschwell 167
10 Woolf, Stein and the drama of public woman / Marianne DeKoven 184
11 True stories: Orlando, life-writing, and transgender narratives / Melanie Taylor 202
12 Plumed Serpent and the erotics of primitive masculinity / Hugh Stevens 219
13 Reading Miss Amelia: critical strategies in the construction of sex, gender, sexuality, the gothic and the grotesque / Claire Whatling 239
14 In search of lost time: reading Hemingway's Garden / Ira Elliott 251.