ABSTRACT
Funke’s chapter explores the intersections between modernist temporalities and sexualities. As other scholars have acknowledged, modernist attempts to resist and subvert conventional understandings of time as linear, sequential, progressive, or teleological anticipate queer scholarship on temporality that has emerged since the early 2000s. This chapter demonstrates that such explorations of queer temporalities were central to both modernist literary experimentation and sexological writings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Funke explores how the sexual scientific theorizations of hormones, heredity and memory, and rhythm and periodicity resonate with literary works by Bryher, E. M. Forster, Radclyffe Hall, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. As a result, the chapter positions sexology as a regulatory and disciplinary field of knowledge that is deeply entangled with modernist literary explorations of queer temporalities and sexualities.
