Abstract
I must admit that I awaited my review copy of Beryl Schlossman's Objects of Desire: The Madonnas of Modernism with great anticipation. Perhaps, I speculated, I'll finally learn something interesting about Marianne Moore's love life. Or--having a certain music video remake of Metropolis in mind--I imagined a rich and provocative analysis of Modernist as Diva: from Colette, the performance artist; to Harriet Shaw Weaver, the dominating patroness; to Gertrude Stein, the self-fashioned celebrity; to H. D., the poet-turned-film-star-turned-occult-prophetess. My expectations were dashed, however, when I opened the book to find that the madonnas under scrutiny were not the modernists I had imagined, but rather the whorish virgins conjured up in the erotic imaginings of Gustave Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. [End Page 977]
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