Modernism, Technology, and the Body

A Cultural Study

Tim Armstrong author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Feb '98

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An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between modernism, technology and the body during the modernist period.

Tim Armstrong addresses the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. He draws on a wide range of disciplines to demonstrate the complex interconnections between technology and literature to provide a cultural history modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.This book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links between modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers, including Yeats, Henry James, Eliot, Stein, and Pound. Armstrong shows how modernist texts enact experimental procedures which have their origins in nineteenth-century psychophysics, biology, and bodily reform techniques, but within a context in which the body is reconceived and subjected to new modes of production, representation and commodification. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the received oppositions between technology and literature, the instrumental and the aesthetic, by demonstrating the leaky boundaries and complex interconnections between these domains. This book offers a cultural history of modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.

"...recommended for advanced specialists in theoretical approaches to interdisciplinary work on the body." Choice

ISBN: 9780521599979

Dimensions: 234mm x 158mm x 16mm

Weight: 450g

320 pages