The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
Ian Whittington editor Alex Goody editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:1st Dec '25
£34.99
This title is due to be published on 1st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Though modernism’s emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism’s contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production, and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area.
True to its name, this essential tool on the intersection of modernism and technology is an excellent companion for those interested in how innovation touched modernity at all angles. It would be valuable to any modernist scholar due to the prevalence of these techno-cultural novelties at a time when we were being implored to make it new. Moreover, this book would be a valuable starting point for any greenhorned scholar in the field, though to be used as a complementary resource for any particular discussion rather than a stand-alone, which is why each chapter’s bibliography is its own gold mine. [...] Overall, this book is a significant contribution to modernist studies, and should be referenced abundantly whenever discussing this movement. -- Christina Heflin, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne * The Modernist Review *
Brilliantly organised and imaginatively capacious, this invaluable volume features fortuitous pairings of writer and topic, with experts thinking beyond their previously published work in new and surprising ways. From illumination through transportation to infrastructure, from media theory to materials science, we are revealed a modernism heterochronic, networked, multiply embodied, intermedial. -- Debra Rae Cohen, University of South Carolina
ISBN: 9781399557092
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472 pages