Modernism, Space and the City

Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London

AvAndrew Thacker

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernismThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Focusing on how literary outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect and literary geography. Particular attention is given to the transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or strangers, including Mulk Raj Anand, Blaise Cendrars, Bryher, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirrlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Stephen Spender.Key FeaturesThe first book in modernist studies to bring detailed discussion of these four cities togetherBreaks new ground in being the first book to bring affect theory and literary geography together in order to analyse modernismAn extensive range of authors is analysed, from the canonical to the previously marginalSituates the literary and filmic texts within the context of urban spaces and cultural institutions

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:418 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748633487

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Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He has published extensively upon modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003). He was the first Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal, Literature & History.

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This book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of the multiple relationships between modernist cultural production and urban space. [...] His attention to geographical detail makes this a valuable contribution not just to modernist scholarship, but also to the emerging interdisciplinary field of literary geography.

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Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist CityA Typical Modernist CityStructure and MethodFour Cities1. ParisIntroduction: A New BabelT. S. Eliot and the Sordid CityTechnology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and CendrarsHope Mirrlees on the Metro Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to ParisParis NoirSwooning in Paris2. ViennaIntroductionGerman Modernism and Regional TransnationalismVienna and Die ModerneAfter the War: Red ViennaVienna Diary: Naomi MitchisonCity in Ruins3. BerlinIntroduction: Hellhole and ParadiseRestless and SpaciousExpressionist Voices and CriesPost-war VisitorsHeterotopias: Cafés and Queer SpacesGeographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to ArtemisBerlin in the Cold4. LondonIntroduction: A Larger UniversityThe Modernist UndergroundMetro-LandSpatial PhobiasOvercoming ModernityLocations of CultureQueer Foreign Fish: Joseph ConradLondon Unplaced: Sam SelvonAfterword: Other Cities, Other ModernismsBibliographyIndex