{"product_id":"modernism-9780745629834","title":"Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the modern' is implicated and debated, and which inform its representational modes.  \u003cp\u003eModernism: A Cultural History explores modernism''s struggle with a split temporality in which the old and the emerging new struggle, and in which, with the horror of the Great War, notions of a traumatic or frozen' time emerge. It considers such topics as modernism, market culture and obscurity; the culture of science and technology; politics, economics, eugenics, and sexology; primitivism and race; cinema and sound recording; gender and modernism; and the study of consciousness and the senses. It portrays modernism less as a movement in revolt from the modern world than as attempting to enga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In seven pithy chapters Amrstrong manages to write illuminatingly on issues as various as history, time, psychoanalysis, trauma, war, nationality, economics, politics, gender, canonicity, mass culture, advertising, social reform, sexology, the occult and spiritualism, eugenics, subjectivity, technology (especially photography, cinema, and radio), race, and imperialism.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Andrzej Gasiorek and Peter Boxall, \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Typically wide-ranging and consummately synthesized, this is the most stimulating, illuminating and pacey account of modernist culture I have read. Armstrong is one of the foremost authorities in his field and his book is certain to become a critical touchstone for students and experts alike.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- David Bradshaw, \u003ci\u003eOxford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Tim Amstrong’s \u003ci\u003eModernism: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and yet original introduction to the culture of modernism, a team Armstrong defines far more widely than previous writers. This book covers a wider range of non-literary topics than any other introduction to modernism, taking in mass culture, psychology, the sciences, technology, race and empire, among many others. But it also includes well-informed and persuasive discussions of a host of literary figures usually ignored in histories of the modern movement. In its sheer inclusiveness, \u003ci\u003eModernism: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e expands and alters our notion of what the term 'modernism' can mean.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Professor Michael North, \u003ci\u003eUCLA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e1 Modernity, Modernism and Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Mapping Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Modernism, Mass Culture and the Market.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Reform! Bodies, Selves, Politics, Aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Self and the Senses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Vibrating Universe: Science, Spiritualism, Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Modernism's Others: Race and Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404362031447,"sku":"9780745629834","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-9780745629834","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}