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Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism
Andrew Thacker
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Description for Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism
Paperback. Reveals ways in which modernism represented a variety of spaces and places, from the city to the suburbs. This book considers how emergent technologies of transport, such as the motorcar and the underground tube train, brought new experiences of modernity that were both thrilling and disorienting to the modernist writer. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. Moving through modernity offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography. In stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also central concerns for modernists. This book reveals the fascinating ways in which modernism represented a variety of spaces and places, from the city to the suburbs, and from urban monuments to cartographies of empire. It also ... Read more
Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. Moving through modernity offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography. In stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also central concerns for modernists. This book reveals the fascinating ways in which modernism represented a variety of spaces and places, from the city to the suburbs, and from urban monuments to cartographies of empire. It also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719081200
SKU
V9780719081200
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About Andrew Thacker
Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester
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