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

ISBN-13: 9780748633487 / Angielski

Andrew Thacker

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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.