Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

ISBN-13: 9780198845195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str.

Victoria Rosner

Opis

Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, and efficiency science that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity.

Recenzje

Rosner establishes clear and persuasive connections between developments in domestic architecture and design and many of the key formal and stylistic characteristics of modernist literature... [Rosner] conclusively demonstrates the centrality of new ideas and theories of the domestic space to modernist literature, and which, in doing so, makes a vital contribution to modernist criticism.

O autorze

Victoria Rosner is Dean of the New York University Gallatin School and Professor of Humanities and English. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2005), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group ( 2014) and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (2012; with Geraldine Pratt). She is co-editor of the Gender and Culture series, published by Columbia University Press, as well as founding co-editor of the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture, a project that recovers the histories of US women architects born before 1940.