Preface.
1 Modernity, Modernism and Time.
2 Mapping Modernism.
3 Modernism, Mass Culture and the Market.
4 Reform! Bodies, Selves, Politics, Aesthetics.
5 The Self and the Senses.
6 The Vibrating Universe: Science, Spiritualism, Technology.
7 Modernism's Others: Race and Empire.
References and Further Reading.
Index
Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
"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."
-- Andrzej Gasiorek and Peter Boxall, The Year's Work in Critical
and Cultural Theory
"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."
-- David Bradshaw, Oxford University
"Tim Amstrong’s Modernism: A Cultural History 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, Modernism: A Cultural History
expands and alters our notion of what the term 'modernism' can
mean."
-- Professor Michael North, UCLA
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