Elevated Realms an Anatomy of Mina Loy

Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle demonstrates how Loys visceral focus propels a prescient feminist vision that aims to resituate marginalised subjects within modernist culture. Elevated Realms An Anatomy of Mina Loy is the first book-length study devoted to Loys affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loys heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume analyses Loys engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism, and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy, and physics; Christian Science and Theosophy. Attending to Loys presentations of the upper half of the body heartscapes, spines, eyes, nerve centres Elevated Realms unearths the coordinates of Loys esoteric Eros, a transcendent, orgasmic love that is cosmic, aesthetic, and a corrective to womens disregarded satiation. The counterpart to her acerbic feminist satires, Loys Eros transforms abjectified, feminised posturing. Always singular, Loys embodied mysticism remains a potent model for the study of feminist spirituality in the modernist period and beyond.