One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and...
One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is prov...
One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and...
One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is prov...
Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. Moving through modernity offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography. In stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also central concerns for modernists. This book reveals the fascinating ways in which modernism represented a variety of spaces and places, from the city to...
Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postc...
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...
Focusing on several key cities, this study measures the influence of the distinctive urban landscaper on various modernisms emerging between 1890 a...
The second of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of "little magazines" which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book contains 44 original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, completely reshaping our understanding of the construction and emergence of modernism. The...
The second of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first com...
The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of "little magazines" and independent periodicals in Europe in the period 1880-1940. It demonstrates how these publications were instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European modernism and the avant-garde. Expert discussion of approaching 300 magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images, from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Scandinavia, Central and...
The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains f...
