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Author Thacker, Andrew, 1962- author.

Title Modernism, space and the city : outsiders and affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London / Andrew Thacker.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Series Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Edinburgh scholarship online
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
Audience Specialized.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City; A Typical Modernist City; Structure and Method; Four Cities; 1. Paris; Introduction: A New Babel; T. S. Eliot and the Sordid City; Technology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and Cendrars; Hope Mirrlees on the Metro; Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris; Paris Noir; Swooning in Paris; 2. Vienna; Introduction; German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism; Vienna and Die Moderne; After the War: Red Vienna; Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison; City in Ruins; 3. Berlin; Introduction: Hellhole and Paradise; Restless and Spacious; Expressionist Voices and Cries; Post-war Visitors; Heterotopias: Cafés and Queer Spaces; Geographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to Artemis; Berlin in the Cold; 4. London; Introduction: A Larger University; The Modernist Underground; Metro-Land; Spatial Phobias; Overcoming Modernity; Locations of Culture; Queer Foreign Fish: Joseph Conrad; London Unplaced: Sam Selvon; Afterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject City and town life in literature.
City and town life in literature.
City and town life.
City and town life.
Paris (France) -- In literature.
Vienna (Austria) -- In literature.
Berlin (Germany) -- In literature.
London (England) -- In literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Literature.
Austria -- Vienna.
England -- London.
France -- Paris.
Germany -- Berlin.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780748633470
ISBN 9781474459754 (electronic book)
1474459757 (electronic book)
0748633499
9781474441940 (PDF ebook)
1474441947
9780748633494 (electronic book)
9780748633470 (hardback)