Geographies of Modernism

Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780415331159
• eBook ISBN: 9781134329106
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.

Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the Orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research that ranges across the field of modernism. It also serves to identify the many exciting new directions that future studies may take.

With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, Geographies of Modernism is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world
• 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia
• 3 ‘Mad after foreign notions’
• 4 Modernism, Africa and the myth of continents
• 5 Spatial stories
• 6 The interior
• 7 ‘A Savage from the Cannibal islands’
• 8 Voyages by teashop
• 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp
• 10 ‘A sense, through the eyes, of embracing possession’ (Henry James)
• 11 Memory, geography, identity
• 12 ‘Architecture or revolution’?
• 13 Rem Koolhaas
• 14 Flannery
• References
• Index