Modernism, Space and the City : : Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London / / Andrew Thacker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Thacker, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 21 B/W illustrations

Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernismThis 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 FeaturesThe 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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City -- Structure and Method -- Four Cities -- 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 Hope Mirrlees on the Metro Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris -- Paris Noir -- Swooning in Paris -- Vienna -- Introduction -- German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism -- Vienna and Die Moderne -- After the War: Red Vienna -- Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison -- City of Ruins -- 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 -- London -- Introduction: A Larger University -- The Modernist Underground -- Metro-Land 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