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The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud
Maud Ellmann
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Description for The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud
paperback. An important contribution to literary criticism by one of the foremost modernist scholars working today, first published in 2010. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 412.
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to ... Read more
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521681094
SKU
V9780521681094
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About Maud Ellmann
Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Mervin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud
'This intellectually adventurous, vividly written study conveys powerful new ways to see psychoanalytic criticism and modernist fiction.' James Joyce Literary Supplement