The Grotesque Modernist Body: Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: A Grotesque Modern Moment
Chapter 2: Joseph Conrad
	The Secret Agent, Anarchy, and the Body
	The Tradition of the Grotesque: Puppetry and Marionettes in Under Western Eyes
	Heart of Darkness: Primitive Bodies, Modern Realities
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Wyndham Lewis
	Wyndham Lewis’s Grotesque Wild Body
	Satire and Horror in The Apes of God and Tarr
	Individuality and Mass-Production: The Revenge for Love and the Grotesque Commodified Body
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: T.S. Eliot
	Eliot’s “Juvenile” Poems and the Tradition of the Grotesque Body
	History, Society and Impersonality in Sweeney’s Degenerate Body
	The Urbanised Patient: Eliot’s Embodiment of the City
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Djuna Barnes
	Barnes’s (Un)Natural World: Animals, Plants and Women
	Barnes, Power and Desire: The Taming of the Female Body
	Repulsive Words: Censoring/Commodifying the Body
Chapter 6: The Modern Grotesque Body
Bibliography
Index