Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction : Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett / Patrick Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert).

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Proust, Marcel.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between microscopy and modernist fiction. Illustrating ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like, this book argues that encounters with the microscopic are often depicted as thresholds between the human and the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction. Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this book traces a shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable.

Contents:

Introduction: Microscopy and the Optical Imagination Chapter 1: Microbiology and the Modern Novel: D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow Chapter 2: Eyes and Microscopes: Marcel Proust's Pluralizing Vision Chapter 3: Extensions and Limitations of Vision in Virginia Woolf's Prose Chapter 4: Joyce... Radek. Eisenstein.. Beckett: Magnification in Murphy Conclusion: Micro to Nano Bibliography

ISBN:

9781350420434

1350420433

9781350420441

1350420441

OCLC:

1463572943