SOLID OBJECTS AND MODERN TONICS, OR, WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG CAMP WOOLF?. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Howard, Alexander
• Is Part Of: Angelaki. Volume 23:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 47
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: camp; fiction -- Charles Henri Ford -- modernism -- poetry -- queer -- Virginia Woolf; Literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2018.1435371
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-725X

Abstract

Abstract: This article brings critical pressure to bear on two different critical terms: modernism and camp. Arguing that these two historically and theoretically weighted categories have much to tell us when read in relation to each other, this article revisits the short fiction of the canonical modernist Virginia Woolf, and debates the critical significance of the work of a hitherto overlooked late modernist, Charles Henri Ford. Comparing and contrasting the very different writing styles of these important modern cultural producers, this article moves to affirm a fresh and queer object of significant scholarly interest: camp modernism.