Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture – serie
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Sonic Modernity
Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Av Sam Halliday
Häftad, 2020
594 kr
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In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further …
Modernism and Magic
Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult
Av Leigh Wilson
Häftad, 2015
778 kr
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Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth centuryWhile modernism’s engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of …
Modernism, Space and the City
Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London
Inbunden, 2019
2022 kr
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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 …
Modernism, Space and the City
Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
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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 …
Modernism and the Idea of Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2020
1029 kr
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This book addresses the idea that art and literature deal in the subject of everyday reality and discusses the subject of the familiar and the trivial in the work of canonical writers and artists.
Primordial Modernism
Animals, Ideas, transition (1927-1938)
Av Cathryn Setz
Inbunden, 2019
2270 kr
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Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine culture Tests the concept of ‘primordial’ modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught nationalismsProvides readings of Eugene Jolas’s creative and critical works that place him centre-stage in …
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War
Inbunden, 2023
2186 kr
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Shifts the scholarly conversation on modernism and war from shell shock to material cultureProvides the first book-length study of the material culture of the First World War through the lens of modernist literatureRethinks the relationship between modernism and armed conflict in tangible terms by …
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
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What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets dropped …
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War
E-bok, 2023
375 kr
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What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets dropped …
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War
E-bok, 2023
375 kr
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What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets dropped …
Reading Modernism's Readers
Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller
Av Helen Tyson
Inbunden, 2024
2102 kr
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Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, …
Reading Modernism's Readers
Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller
Av Helen Tyson
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, …
Micromodernism
Rethinking Literary Renewal in the Long 1930s
Inbunden, 2025
1236 kr
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What is wrong with 'literary modernism' as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of 'winner's history' with a relatively narrow canon of innovative works, even including recent additions. Another is that it is a retrospective construction, rather than a term much used in its …
Micromodernism
Rethinking Literary Renewal in the Long 1930s
Häftad, 2026
594 kr
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What is wrong with ‘literary modernism’ as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of ‘winner’s history’ with a relatively narrow canon of innovative works, even including recent additions. Another is that it is a retrospective construction, rather than a term much used in its …
Micromodernism
Rethinking Literary Renewal in the Long 1930s
E-bok, 2025
469 kr
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What is wrong with ‘literary modernism’ as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of ‘winner’s history’ with a relatively narrow canon of innovative works, even including recent additions. Another is that it is a retrospective construction, rather than a term much used in its …
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
Inbunden, 2018
1531 kr
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Modernism in mathematics this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this book relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to …
Modernism Edited
Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine
Inbunden, 2019
2437 kr
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Examines Marianne Moore’s editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929As editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazines have largely overlooked her editorial influence. …
Self-Harm in New Woman Writing
Inbunden, 2017
2183 kr
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Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman. Focusing on self-starvation, excessive drinking and self-mutilation, this study …
Portable Modernisms
The Art of Travelling Light
Inbunden, 2017
2437 kr
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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.
Lesbian Modernism
Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction
Häftad, 2017
778 kr
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The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre fiction for the body of literature we call lesbian modernismElizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, …
Hieroglyphic Modernisms
Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2017
1397 kr
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Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
Häftad, 2017
778 kr
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Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across.
Modernism and Time Machines
Inbunden, 2019
1484 kr
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Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this …
Modern Print Artefacts
Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s
Häftad, 2018
632 kr
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This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objects paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. became uniquely visible and …
Modernist Life Histories
Biological Theory and The Experimental Bildungsroman
Inbunden, 2018
2437 kr
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Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanModernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth …
Cheap Modernism
Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde
Av Lise Jaillant, Lise Jaillant
Häftad, 2018
472 kr
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The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomenonWe often think of Mrs Dalloway or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as difficult books, originally published in small print runs for a handful of …
Hieroglyphic Modernisms
Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
751 kr
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Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. The decipherment of the Stone by Jean-François Champollion and the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s …
Portable Modernisms
The Art of Travelling Light
Av Emily Ridge
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost …
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelationsModernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the …
Modernism and Still Life
Artists, Writers, Dancers
Häftad, 2021
402 kr
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for …
