Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: New women, new men
1. George Gissing, urban modernity and modernism
2. Dorothy Richardson and new woman fiction
3. Going up in mmoke: Mr Richardson
4. Fathers and cities
5. On the threshold: Franz Kafka
6. Journeys through the city: James Joyce
Part II: Bodies
7. Bodily innervation: food, eating and the everyday
8. George Gissing and the cultural politics of food
9. smoking and consumption
10. Dietetics and aesthetics
11. Lestrygonians: a place to eat
Part III: Cities
12. Phantasmagoria and the public sphere
13. Teashop dreams
14. Gissing and eating out
15. Modernism’s ABC
16. Miriam, teashops and the industrialised public sphere
17: Kafka, masculinity and the public sphere
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