Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Repudiation of Pleasure

1. James Joyce and the Scent of Modernity

2. Stein’s Tickle

3. Orgasmic Discipline: D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Hull, and Interwar Erotic Fiction

4. Huxley’s Feelies: Engineered Pleasure in Brave New World

5. The Impasse of Pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys

6. Blondes Have More Fun: Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema

Coda: Modernism’s Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure

Notes

Index