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 cont...

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