Introduction: modernism against the liberal world
The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order
Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf
The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot
Typewriter fiction at the Secretariat
Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay
Coda: brief history of an antipathy: liberal order and modernist criticism.