Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism, Reading 1922, and Camera Works, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Award in 2006.

Machine-Age Comedy makes a strong, original historical argument about the cultural ramifications of modern technologies; it intervenes sharply and persuasively in the field of humor theory; and it offers, by way of support for its historical and theoretical arguments, a series of dazzling, witty, and clear-headed readings of modernist films and novels. It's a terrific book.

• Series Editors' Foreword Preface Introduction Part I 1: Camera Men 2: Mickey's Mechanical Man 3: Goldberg Variations Part II 4: Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor 5: Beckett's Machinations 6: A More than Infinite Jest Conclusion

Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism, Reading 1922, and Camera Works, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Award in 2006.

Machine-Age Comedy makes a strong, original historical argument about the cultural ramifications of modern technologies; it intervenes sharply and persuasively in the field of humor theory; and it offers, by way of support for its historical and theoretical arguments, a series of dazzling, witty, and clear-headed readings of modernist films and novels. It's a terrific book.

• Series Editors' Foreword Preface Introduction Part I 1: Camera Men 2: Mickey's Mechanical Man 3: Goldberg Variations Part II 4: Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor 5: Beckett's Machinations 6: A More than Infinite Jest Conclusion

Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism, Reading 1922, and Camera Works, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Award in 2006.

Machine-Age Comedy makes a strong, original historical argument about the cultural ramifications of modern technologies; it intervenes sharply and persuasively in the field of humor theory; and it offers, by way of support for its historical and theoretical arguments, a series of dazzling, witty, and clear-headed readings of modernist films and novels. It's a terrific book.

• Series Editors' Foreword Preface Introduction Part I 1: Camera Men 2: Mickey's Mechanical Man 3: Goldberg Variations Part II 4: Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor 5: Beckett's Machinations 6: A More than Infinite Jest Conclusion