Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition (Modernist Archives)

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In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to live as Lili Ilse Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man to Woman), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformation surgery (Genitalumwandlung). In Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer present the full text of the 1933 American edition of Elbe's work with comprehensive notes on textual and paratextual variants across the four published editions in three languages. This edition also includes a substantial scholarly introduction which situates the historical and intellectual context of Elbe's work, as well as new essays on the work by leading scholars in transgender studies and modernist literature, and critical coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl. This print edition has a digital companion: the Lili Elbe Digital Archive (www.lilielbe.org). Launched on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe was initially examined, the Lili Elbe Digital Archive hosts the German typescript and all four editions of this narrative published in Danish, German, and English between 1931 and 1933, with English translations of the Danish edition and the typescript. Many letters from archives and contemporaneous articles noted in this print edition may be found in the digital archive. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication EDITORIAL PREFACE TO MODERNIST ARCHIVES CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ARCHIVAL SOURCES NOTE ON THE EDITION CHRONOLOGY Introduction PART I: A SHORT LIFE OF LILI ELBE PART II: A SHORT HISTORY OF SEXOLOGY PART III: MAN INTO WOMAN AND MODERNIST LIFE WRITING PART IV: COMPOSITIONAL AND PUBLICATION HISTORY PART V: CONTRIBUTORS’ ESSAYS Corpus MAN INTO WOMAN LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Introduction Foreword I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII DUSK Textual Notes New Essays on Man Into Woman The Binary Bind: Inversion, Intersexuality and Interest in a Very Queer Künstlerroman WHEN IS “ENOUGH” ENOUGH? AUTOGRAPHY AS TECHNOLOGY OF THE SELF TROPES AND CONSEQUENCES A QUEER KÜNSTLERROMAN? NOTES Current and Historical Notions of Sexed Embodiment and Transition in Relation to Lili Elvenes NOTES Man into Woman: A Modernist Experimental Genre NOTES Magic and Medicine: Man into Woman and Anthropology WYNDHAM LEWIS AND THE “TRANSFORMED SHAMAN” ANTHROPOLOGY AS THINKING ABOUT GENDER NOTES Getting the Lili We Deserve? Telling a Different Story of Lili Elbe through the Portraits of Gerda Wegener THE CONTESTED HISTORY OF MAN INTO WOMAN REPRODUCING WELL-KNOWN CINEMATIC TROPES LILI THE SELF-ASSURE MODEL A QUEER UNIVERSE LESBIAN POSSIBILITIES EXIT: GETTING THE LILI WE DESERVE? NOTES A Pretty Knot of Lilies: Disentangling Lili Elbe’s longue durée in Pop Culture THE IMAGE COMMODITY LILI: SEXING UP SEXUAL INDETERMINACY THE TRAGIC-TRANSGENDER LILI: SUFFERING FOR SEXUAL INDETERMINACY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX