Portable Modernisms

The Art of Travelling Light

AvEmily Ridge,Emily Ridge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

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Beskrivning

This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:484 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474419598

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Emily Ridge is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Education University of Hong Kong.

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[...] makes a significant contribution to modernist studies through elegant consideration of the ‘new culture of portability in the early twentieth century’ and its effects on modernist approaches to fiction (p. 4).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. ‘Living Modernly's Living Quickly’: Towards Travelling Light 2. ‘A Purse of Her Own’: Women and Carriage3. ‘No one Is Safe from the Beggar’s Pack’: Portability and Precarity4. ‘Have You Anything to Declare?’: Portable Selves on TrialConclusion