Brian Glavey

Bio

Brian Glavey is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde: Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis and is currently working on a book project on relatability and the poetics of oversharing.

Contributions

Modernity and Other Nocturnal Distempers

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Self-published in 1928, the annus mirabilis of queer modernism, Djuna Barnes’s Ladies Almanack is a landmark of sapphic modernity. As Susan S. Lanser notes in her introduction to a 1992 edition of Barnes’s idiosyncratic almanac, the text’s “lesbian cosmology” constitutes a radical revision of “Western culture, creating alternatives to patriarchal ritual, dogma, and myth.”

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