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Versions of chapters 3, 4, and 6 were published as:
“The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction” in Bad Modernisms, ed. Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 94–118.
“Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World,” Twentieth-Century Literature 52, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 443–473.
“Blondes Have More Fun: Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema,” Modernism/modernity 17, no. 2 (April 2010): 291–311.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967–
The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents / Laura Frost.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-15272-3 (cloth : acid-free paper) —
ISBN 978-0-231-52646-3 (electronic)
1. Modernism (Literature) 2. Pleasure in literature. I. Title.
PN56.M54F76 2013
809'.9112—dc23 2012036521
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