Modernity Must Drive : The Motor Car, Material Cultures, and British Modernisms / edited by Ann Martin ; Christopher Townsend.

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Book

Contributor:

Ann Martin, editor.

Christopher Townsend, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Modernism & the Avant-Garde

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobiles in literature.

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

English literature.

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

Irish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages).

Place of Publication:

Madison, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2025.

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Notes:

Introduction: Are We There Yet? A Materialist Tour by Motor Car through British Interwar Literature Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar) and Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Part One 1. The Car and the Crowd in Early Motor Racing Arthur Rose (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Crawling Through No-Man's Land: Exhilaration, Endurance, and Exhaustion in Wartime Ambulance Accounts Meg Albrinck (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) 3. Cars within Carriages: Mrs. Dalloway and Queen Alexandra's Rose Day Drive Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Part Two 4. The Car in the Hat: A Hispano-Suiza H6 as Diabolus ex machina in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar) 5. Gaining Speed but Losing Direction: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 6. Love and Recklessness: Speed in To the North Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Canada) Part Three 7. Cars and Girls: The Gendered Allure of Small Sports Cars, Risk, and Female Autonomy in Elizabeth Bowen's To the North and on the Race-Track in the 1930s Daniela Georgieva (Royal Holloway University, UK) 8. Autogeddon or Autotopia? D. H. Lawrence, Stella Gibbons, and Clashing Conceptions of Modern (Auto)mobility Marlene A. Briggs (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9. An Automotive Passage to India Zena Meadowsong (Independent Scholar) Part Four: 10. Thwarted Automobility and the Imperial Road in Jean Rhys's Writing Janet Neigh (Pennsylvania State University, US) 11. The Motor Car as Modernist Time Machine: John Piper's Oxon and Heterochronic Time Sarah Watson (Independent Scholar) Index About the Contributors

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1683937236

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1683937120

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