Before Modernism Was: Modern History and the Constituency of Writing

By Geoff Gilbert

Book Overview

Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that affects the value of your property; the sulky, graceless adolescent; the Pole who may not be Polish; the nervous owner of the dog; the addict and her smoke. Eccentric to its institutions, these figures are central to the constituency of modernism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033377051X
• ISBN13: 9780333770511
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"