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Modernism, Space and the City
Andrew Thacker
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Description for Modernism, Space and the City
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
This innovative book aims to examine the crucial role played by the spaces of the city in the construction of modernism. By focusing upon a number of key cities the book is able to consider the influence of the urban landscape upon the various modernisms that appeared in the period from c.1890 to 1940. The book takes a distinctive approach to the topic by focusing upon the interactions between the literary texts and the institutions of cultural production found in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. As well as exciting analyses of key modernist texts, each chapter considers the ... Read more
This innovative book aims to examine the crucial role played by the spaces of the city in the construction of modernism. By focusing upon a number of key cities the book is able to consider the influence of the urban landscape upon the various modernisms that appeared in the period from c.1890 to 1940. The book takes a distinctive approach to the topic by focusing upon the interactions between the literary texts and the institutions of cultural production found in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. As well as exciting analyses of key modernist texts, each chapter considers the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748633470
SKU
V9780748633470
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About Andrew Thacker
Andrew Thacker is Senior Research Fellow in the School of English at De Montfort University. He is the author of Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (MUP, 2003) and co-editor of Geographies of Modernism: Literature, Cultures, Spaces (with Peter Brooker), (Routledge, 2005), and of The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities (with Moya Lloyd) ... Read more
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