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

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 1 Halftitle page 2 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Dedication 6 EDITORIAL PREFACE TO MODERNIST ARCHIVES 7 CONTENTS 10 CONTRIBUTORS 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 13 ARCHIVAL SOURCES 16 NOTE ON THE EDITION 17 CHRONOLOGY 21 Introduction 24 PART I: A SHORT LIFE OF LILI ELBE 28 PART II: A SHORT HISTORY OF SEXOLOGY 33 PART III: MAN INTO WOMAN AND MODERNIST LIFE WRITING 43 PART IV: COMPOSITIONAL AND PUBLICATION HISTORY 51 PART V: CONTRIBUTORS’ ESSAYS 67 Corpus 72 MAN INTO WOMAN 76 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 78 Introduction 80 Foreword 84 I 85 II 88 III 91 IV 94 V 101 VI 106 VII 114 VIII 126 IX 139 X 149 XI 155 XII 163 XIII 167 XIV 175 XV 177 XVI 189 XVII 193 XVIII 196 XIX 202 XX 208 XXI 212 XXII 214 DUSK 220 Textual Notes 228 New Essays on Man Into Woman 244 The Binary Bind: Inversion, Intersexuality and Interest in a Very Queer Künstlerroman 246 WHEN IS “ENOUGH” ENOUGH? 247 AUTOGRAPHY AS TECHNOLOGY OF THE SELF 248 TROPES AND CONSEQUENCES 250 A QUEER KÜNSTLERROMAN? 252 NOTES 253 Current and Historical Notions of Sexed Embodiment and Transition in Relation to Lili Elvenes 256 NOTES 264 Man into Woman: A Modernist Experimental Genre 267 NOTES 271 Magic and Medicine: Man into Woman and Anthropology 272 WYNDHAM LEWIS AND THE “TRANSFORMED SHAMAN” 274 ANTHROPOLOGY AS THINKING ABOUT GENDER 276 NOTES 278 Getting the Lili We Deserve? Telling a Different Story of Lili Elbe through the Portraits of Gerda Wegener 281 THE CONTESTED HISTORY OF MAN INTO WOMAN 281 REPRODUCING WELL-KNOWN CINEMATIC TROPES 283 LILI THE SELF-ASSURE MODEL 284 A QUEER UNIVERSE 285 LESBIAN POSSIBILITIES 286 EXIT: GETTING THE LILI WE DESERVE? 287 NOTES 288 A Pretty Knot of Lilies: Disentangling Lili Elbe’s longue durée in Pop Culture 291 THE IMAGE COMMODITY LILI: SEXING UP SEXUAL INDETERMINACY 293 THE TRAGIC-TRANSGENDER LILI: SUFFERING FOR SEXUAL INDETERMINACY 296 NOTES 299 BIBLIOGRAPHY 302 INDEX 314 "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 f|r 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."-- Page 4 de la couverture 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 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 the Lili Elbe Digital Archive ((http://www.lilielbe.org) 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 fr 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. 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__). 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. Introduction. A short life of Lili Elbe ; A short history of sexology ; Man into Woman and modernist life writing ; Compositional and publication history ; Contributors' essays -- Corpus. Man into Woman: an authentic record of a sex change ; Textural notes -- New essays on Man into Woman. The binary bind: inversion, intersexuality and interest in a very queer Künstlerroman / Madelyn Detloff -- Current and historical notions of sexed embodiment and transition in relation to Lili Elvenes / Solve M. Holm -- Man into Woman: a modernist experimental genre / Michael Levenson -- Magic and medicine: Man into Woman and anthropology / Tim Armstrong -- Getting the Lili we deserve? Telling a different story of Lili Elbe through the portraits of Gerda Wegener / Tobias Raun -- A pretty knot of lilies: disentangling Lili Elbe's longue durée in pop culture / Eliza Steinbock