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Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernism
This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Focusing on how literary outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect and literary geography. Particular attention is given to the transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or strangers, including Mulk Raj Anand, Blaise Cendrars, Bryher, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirrlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Stephen Spender.
Key Features
The first book in modernist studies to bring detailed discussion of these four cities togetherBreaks new ground in being the first book to bring affect theory and literary geography together in order to analyse modernismAn extensive range of authors is analysed, from the canonical to the previously marginalSituates the literary and filmic texts within the context of urban spaces and cultural institutions
Contents
Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist CityA Typical Modernist CityStructure and MethodFour Cities
1. ParisIntroduction: A New BabelT. S. Eliot and the Sordid CityTechnology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and CendrarsHope Mirrlees on the Metro Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to ParisParis NoirSwooning in Paris
2. ViennaIntroductionGerman Modernism and Regional TransnationalismVienna and Die ModerneAfter the War: Red ViennaVienna Diary: Naomi MitchisonCity in Ruins
3. BerlinIntroduction: Hellhole and ParadiseRestless and SpaciousExpressionist Voices and CriesPost-war VisitorsHeterotopias: Cafés and Queer SpacesGeographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to ArtemisBerlin in the Cold
4. LondonIntroduction: A Larger UniversityThe Modernist UndergroundMetro-LandSpatial PhobiasOvercoming ModernityLocations of CultureQueer Foreign Fish: Joseph ConradLondon Unplaced: Sam SelvonAfterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms
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