The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology /

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

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 sc...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations 40 black and white & 11 colour illustrations
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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

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