Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin
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...
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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 scholarsOffers a key research resource for scholars in modernist studies and cognate areasProvides a classroom-ready collection of essays relevant to undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist literature, art and cultureThough modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism's contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production, and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
;
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin
Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of...
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Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.Key Features:The first volume on Anglo-American book publishers that sold difficult modernist texts to a wide range of readers around the worldSheds new light on the relationship between publishers and major modernist writersIncludes essays of broad significance written in an accessible proseDraws on extensive work in neglected archives...
