Andrew Thacker

Modernism, Space and the City (eBook, ePUB)

Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 contemporary theories of affect and literary geography. Particular attention is given to the transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or strangers, including Mulk Raj Anand, Blaise Cendrars, Bryher, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirrlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Stephen Spender.Key FeaturesThe first book in modernist studies to bring detailed discussion of these four cities togetherBreaks new ground in being the first book to bring affect theory and literary geography together in order to analyse modernismAn extensive range of authors is analysed, from the canonical to the previously marginalSituates the literary and filmic texts within the context of urban spaces and cultural institutions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474441940
• Artikelnr.: 72413632

Autorenporträt

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He has published extensively upon modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003). He was the first Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal, Literature & History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City
A Typical Modernist City
Structure and Method
Four Cities
1. Paris
Introduction: A New Babel
T. S. Eliot and the Sordid City
Technology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and Cendrars
Hope Mirrlees on the Metro
Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris
Paris Noir
Swooning in Paris
2. Vienna
Introduction
German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism
Vienna and Die Moderne
After the War: Red Vienna
Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison
City in Ruins
3. Berlin
Introduction: Hellhole and Paradise
Restless and Spacious
Expressionist Voices and Cries
Post-war Visitors
Heterotopias: Cafés and Queer Spaces
Geographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to Artemis
Berlin in the Cold
4. London
Introduction: A Larger University
The Modernist Underground
Metro-Land
Spatial Phobias
Overcoming Modernity
Locations of Culture
Queer Foreign Fish: Joseph Conrad
London Unplaced: Sam Selvon
Afterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms
Bibliography
Index.