Novel theory and technology in Modernist Britain / Heather Fielding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fielding, Heather, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Technology in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

1-108-62929-6

1-108-67608-1

1-108-67225-6