Reconstructing Modernism
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-881648-5 (ISBN)
While the city has long been a focus of literary modernist studies, architectural modernism has never had its due. Scholars usually characterize architectural modernism as a parallel modernism or even an incompatible modernism to literature. Giving special attention to dystopian classics Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this study argues that sustained attention to modern architecture shaped mid-century authors' political and aesthetic commitments. After many writers deemed modernist architects to be agents for communism and other collectivist movements, they squared themselves--and literary modernist detachment and aesthetic autonomy--against the seemingly tyrannical utopianism of modern architecture; literary aesthetic qualities were reclaimed as political qualities. In this way, Reconstructing Modernism redraws the boundaries of literary modernist studies: rather than simply adding to its canon, it argues that the responsibility for defining literary modernism for the mid-century public was shared by an incredible variety of authors--Edwardians, modernists, satirists, and even anti-modernists.
Ashley Maher is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Before that, she was the Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, and a lecturer in English at the University of Sydney. Her work has appeared in ELH and is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature.
Introduction: Brave New Worlds, Brave New Words, and Brave New Rooms
1: Waugh, Betjeman, Lewis and the Missed Future of Modernism
2: Aldous Huxley and the 'Brave New World' of Architectural Modernism
3: 'Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing': Bowen, Isherwood, Orwell, and the 'New' Britain
4: Planning for War and Peace: Betjeman, Orwell, Waugh, and the Dystopian Documentary
5: Epilogue: Modernist Afterlives: J. G. Ballard's 'Handful of Dust'
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series |
Zusatzinfo | 7 Illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 146 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 488 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-881648-0 / 0198816480 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-881648-5 / 9780198816485 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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