The Modernist Corpse by Erin E. Edwards
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The Modernist Corpse. Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2018.
Edwards reorients critical accounts of modernism by showing that the status of the human and the nonhuman is one of its central concerns. The book explores the porous boundary between the “life” of human and nonhuman bodies in modernism, focusing on works by William Faulkner, Jean Toomer, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rainier Maria Rilke, Mina Loy, Man Ray, director James Whales, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein.
