General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORIES Modernity and Enlightenment Modernity and Decadence Modernity and Modernism Modernity Now PART II: STRUCTURES OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITY Post 'Differend' Hauntology Global Language Development Hong Kong Architecture Dirt Power Hatred Marxism Children Animal Museums Age Commodity War Repetition Maps Perversion PART III: TEXTS Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land William Gibson, Neuromancer M. John Harrison, Light Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Bibliography Index.
'A lively, energetic and provoking study by one of the best critics of contemporary fiction in English today.' - Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK
DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature, contemporary writing and culture, and on literary theory, psychoanalysis and the postcolonial.
'A lively, energetic and provoking study by one of the best critics of contemporary fiction in English today.' - Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK
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