
Before Modernism Was
Modern History and the Constituency of Writing
G. Gilbert(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 8. September 2004
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 222 pages
978-0-333-77051-1 (ISBN)
Description
Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that affects the value of your property; the sulky, graceless adolescent; the Pole who may not be Polish; the nervous owner of the dog; the addict and her smoke. Eccentric to its institutions, these figures are central to the constituency of modernism.
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Edition
2004 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XVIII, 222 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77051-1 (9780333770511)
DOI
10.1057/9780230510210
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Person
GEOFF GILBERT is Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. He writes about and teaches modernism, European fiction, cultural studies, and sexuality.
Content
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Modern History and the Disavowal of Possibility Property: The Preoccupation of Modernism Boys: Manufacturing Inefficiency Poles: The Centre of Europe Dogs: Small Domestic Forms Smoke: Craving History Notes Bibliography Index