The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology / / ed. by Alex Goody.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Beeston, Alix,; Bloom, Emily C.,; Deer, Patrick,; Duffy, Enda,; Epstein, Josh,; Funke, Jana,; Gee, Felicity,; Goody, Alex,; Ho, Janice,; Keane, Damien,; Krzakowski, Caroline Z.,; Lam, Joshua,; Lieberman, Jennifer L.,; Long, Maebh,; Ludtke, Laura,; Mellor, Leo,; Morin, Emilie,; Pilsch, Andrew,; Purdon, James,; Rabinovitch-Fox, Einav,; Ross, Shawna,; Shingler, Katherine,; Slevin, Tom,; Snaith, Anna,; Sorensen, Jennifer,; Stalter-Pace, Sunny,; Trotter, David,; Tung, Charles,; Wallace, Jeff,; Whittington, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Goody, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations 40 black and white & 11 colour illustrations

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technologyProposes significant new ways for understanding the intersections of modernism and technologyIncludes original research contributions from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of modernist scholarsOffers a key research resource for scholars in modernist studies and cognate areasProvides a classroom-ready collection of essays relevant to undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist literature, art and cultureThough modernism’s emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism’s contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production, and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies -- Part I Machines -- 1 Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics -- 2 Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock -- 3 Print: Anaïs Nin’s Embodied Encounters with Print Technology -- 4 Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose -- 5 Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed’s Visual Limit-field -- 6 Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s -- 7 Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia -- Part II Media -- 8 Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric -- 9 Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early Twentieth-century America -- 10 Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight -- 11 X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions -- 12 Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac’s ‘Integral Cinema’, Form and Spirit -- 13 Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology -- 14 Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening -- 15 Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde’s Technological Imaginary -- 16 Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas -- Part III Bodies -- 17 Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body -- 18 Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity -- 19 Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler -- 20 Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism -- 21 Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction -- Part IV Systems -- 22 Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state -- 23 Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems -- 24 Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers -- 25 Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker -- 26 Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism -- 27 Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920–2020 -- 28 War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime -- Notes on Contributors -- Index