Portable Modernisms : : The Art of Travelling Light / / Emily Ridge.
A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-la...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Living modernly’s living quickly’: Towards Travelling Light
- 2 ‘A purse of her own’: Women and Carriage
- 3 ‘No one is safe from the beggar’s pack’: Portability and Precarity
- 4 ‘Have you anything to declare?’: Portable Selves on Trial
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index