Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself.
Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself.
Ashley Maher is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Before that, she was the Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, and a lecturer in English at the University of Sydney. Her work has appeared in ELH and is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Brave New Worlds Brave New Words and Brave New Rooms * 1: Waugh Betjeman Lewis and the Missed Future of Modernism * 2: Aldous Huxley and the 'Brave New World' of Architectural Modernism * 3: 'Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing': Bowen Isherwood Orwell and the 'New' Britain * 4: Planning for War and Peace: Betjeman Orwell Waugh and the Dystopian Documentary * 5: Epilogue: Modernist Afterlives: J. G. Ballard's 'Handful of Dust'
* Introduction: Brave New Worlds Brave New Words and Brave New Rooms * 1: Waugh Betjeman Lewis and the Missed Future of Modernism * 2: Aldous Huxley and the 'Brave New World' of Architectural Modernism * 3: 'Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing': Bowen Isherwood Orwell and the 'New' Britain * 4: Planning for War and Peace: Betjeman Orwell Waugh and the Dystopian Documentary * 5: Epilogue: Modernist Afterlives: J. G. Ballard's 'Handful of Dust'
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