Modernism, space and the city : outsiders and affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London / Andrew Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thacker, Andrew, 1962- author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Europe.

Modernism (Literature).

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7486-3349-9

1-4744-5975-7