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February 6, 2020

Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature

McIntyre Amy

Edited by Kara Watts, Robin Hackett, and Molly Volanth Hall. University Press of Florida, 2019

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Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation.

Modernist creativity, the volume proposes, may return to us notions of the feeling, material ...