Ashley Maher

Reconstructing Modernism

British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198816485
• ISBN-10: 0198816480
• Artikelnr.: 58305376

Autorenporträt

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'