Scott McCracken

Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780719044847
• ISBN-10: 0719044847
• Artikelnr.: 37602838

Autorenporträt

Scott McCracken is Professor of English Literature at Keele University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: New women, new men 1. George Gissing, urban modernity
and modernism 2. Dorothy Richardson and new woman fiction 3. Going up in
mmoke: Mr Richardson 4. Fathers and cities 5. On the threshold: Franz Kafka
6. Journeys through the city: James Joyce Part II: Bodies 7. Bodily
innervation: food, eating and the everyday 8. George Gissing and the
cultural politics of food 9. smoking and consumption 10. Dietetics and
aesthetics 11. Lestrygonians: a place to eat Part III: Cities 12.
Phantasmagoria and the public sphere 13. Teashop dreams 14. Gissing and
eating out 15. Modernism's ABC 16. Miriam, teashops and the industrialised
public sphere 17: Kafka, masculinity and the public sphere Bibliography