Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London

ISBN-13: 9780748633470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Andrew Thacker

Opis

Focusing on several key cities, this study measures the influence of the distinctive urban landscaper on various modernisms emerging between 1890 and 1950. In particular, it explores interactions among literary texts and institutions of cultural production in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and New York. Along with absorbing analyses of key modernist texts, each chapter surveys different sites in which modernism emerged: publishing houses, bookstores, discussion circles, salons, and caf?s, and they address new urban features, such as the underground transportation system, the growth of the suburbs, and architectural inventions like the skyscraper. A final chapter considers the construction of literary modernism within cities beyond the anglo-European world.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City; A Typical Modernist City; Structure and Method; Four Cities; 1. Paris; Introduction: A New Babel; T. S. Eliot and the Sordid City; Technology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and Cendrars; Hope Mirrlees on the Metro; Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris; Paris Noir; Swooning in Paris; 2. Vienna; Introduction; German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism; Vienna and Die Moderne; After the War: Red Vienna; Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison; City in Ruins; 3. Berlin; Introduction: Hellhole and Paradise; Restless and Spacious; Expressionist Voices and Cries; Post-war Visitors; Heterotopias: Cafés and Queer Spaces; Geographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to Artemis; Berlin in the Cold; 4. London; Introduction: A Larger University; The Modernist Underground; Metro-Land; Spatial Phobias; Overcoming Modernity; Locations of Culture; Queer Foreign Fish: Joseph Conrad; London Unplaced: Sam Selvon; Afterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms; Bibliography; Index.