Heather Fielding (Indiana Purdue University Northwest)

Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Novel Theory offers a new history of how modernists renovated the theory of the novel, and reveals that technology played a key role in their thinking. It will find interest amongst graduates and scholars working on modernism, the novel generally, and the relationship between literature and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 235mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426046
• ISBN-10: 1108426042
• Artikelnr.: 49219959

Autorenporträt

Heather Fielding is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Purdue University Northwest in Westville and Hammond, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Readers and machines in modernist novel theory; 1. Point of
view as projector: Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the modernist management
of reading; 2. What carries the novel: Ford Madox Ford, Impressionist
connectivity, and the telephone; 3. 'Every age has been 'a machine age'':
Wyndham Lewis and the novel's technological temporality; 4. From empathy to
the super-cortex: Rebecca West's technics of the novel; Conclusion. Novel
theory and technology in late Modernism.