Happy Modernisms

Can modernism be happy? Or perhaps the question should be: can modernist studies be happy? These questions started to preoccupy me some time ago when I was seven weeks into teaching my undergraduate course in modernist literature at Western Sydney University. As we were about to turn our attention to Jean Rhys’s novel Voyage in the Dark (1934), I felt compelled to apologize to

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Modernism/Modernity Print Plus
Published
2025-05-20
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https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0320
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Japanese History and Culture
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Happy Modernisms

Lorraine Sim
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Happy Modernisms

Lorraine Sim
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Abstract

Can modernism be happy? Or perhaps the question should be: can modernist studies be happy? These questions started to preoccupy me some time ago when I was seven weeks into teaching my undergraduate course in modernist literature at Western Sydney University. As we were about to turn our attention to Jean Rhys’s novel Voyage in the Dark (1934), I felt compelled to apologize to

Modernism/Modernity Print PlusVol. 9(3)
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Japanese History and Culture
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