Carl Van Vechten, The Blind Bow-Boy

Kirsty MacLeod

Carl Van Vechten, The Blind Bow-Boy

Edited by Kirsten MacLeod

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Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), American novelist

Critical Texts 62

Modern Humanities Research Association

31 August 2018 • 182pp

ISBN: 978-1-781882-90-0 (paperback) • RRP £18.99, $26.99, €22.99

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Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a key advocate for modernism across the arts in America in the first half of the twentieth century. As a critic of music, dance, and literature, as novelist, as photographer, as patron of the arts, and as saloniste, he exerted an influence on the development and reception of popular and avant-garde forms of modernism – from jazz, blues, and early cinema to Gertrude Stein and Igor Stravinsky. Though currently less well-known than ‘Lost Generation’ contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Van Vechten was a popular and critically acclaimed figure in his day. Van Vechten’s novels are worthy of recuperation for their distinctive take on the raucous spirit of the Jazz Age, bringing a witty and sardonic viewpoint to issues that his modernist contemporaries approached with gravity.

This edition brings back into print Van Vechten’s second novel, The Blind Bow-Boy (1923), which Van Vechten’s most recent biographer has called a ‘great, forgotten American novel of the 1920s’. It is thoroughly annotated and provides an introduction that foregrounds the novel’s importance for literary modernism and as a treatment of queer identity.

Reviews:

‘Kirsten MacLeod’s new MHRA Critical Texts edition of The Blind Bow-Boy makes it possible and attractive to bring Van Vechten into both the undergraduate and graduate classroom by illuminating the novel’s complex recipe for hedonism... In every sense, then, MacLeod’s framing of the novel makes it feel at once more significant and more enjoyable, and its availability now in an affordable paperback form will hopefully bring more scholars, students, and general readers into contact with its pleasures.’ — Kristin Mahoney, Textual Cultures 12.2, 2019, 144-46
‘If one were to add The Blind Bow-Boy to a class on modernism, New York literature of the 1920s, or even a twentieth-century literature survey, this edition would make the work accessible to a wide range of students because it serves in itself as an excellent introduction to modernist work. Highly recommended.’ — Michelle E. Moore, Modern Language Review 116.3, July 2021, 500-01 (full text online)

Contents:

vii-xxii	Introduction: the Blind Bow-Boy: ‘A Great Forgotten American Novel of the 1920s’ Kirsten MacLeod doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.3	Cite
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xxiii-xxiv	Note On the Text and Acknowledgements Kirsten MacLeod doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.4	Cite
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xxv-xxviii	Select Bibliography Kirsten MacLeod doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.5	Cite
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2-11	Chapter I Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.6	Cite
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12-18	Chapter II Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.7	Cite
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19-32	Chapter III Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.8	Cite
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33-52	Chapter IV Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.9	Cite
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53-60	Chapter V Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.10	Cite
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61-70	Chapter VI Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.11	Cite
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71-89	Chapter VII Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.12	Cite
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90-106	Chapter VIII Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.13	Cite
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107-117	Chapter IX Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.14	Cite
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118-125	Chapter X Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.15	Cite
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126-132	Chapter XI Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.16	Cite
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133-140	Chapter XII Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.17	Cite
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141-145	Chapter XIII Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.18	Cite
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146-154	Chapter XIV Carl Van Vechten doi:10.2307/j.ctv4rfqrc.19	Cite
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