Dreams of Modernity
Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
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- Author: Laura Marcus, University of Oxford
- Date Published: January 2015
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- isbn: 9781107622951
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Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
Read more- Brings together discussions of literature, film, technology, psychoanalysis in an interdisciplinary synthesis
- Addresses the concerns of 'new modernist studies', to which the author has been a significant contributor
- Explores the continuities and discontinuities between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and cultural forms
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- Date Published: January 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107622951
- length: 273 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The lodger
2. Oedipus express: psychoanalysis and the railways
3. Railway reading
4. 'From autumn to spring, aesthetics change': modernity's visual displays
5. 'A hymn to the movement': the 'city symphony' of the 1920s and 1930s
6. Staging the 'private theatre': gender and the auto-erotics of reverie
7. The new biography
8. European witness: analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s
9. Dreaming and the cinematographic consciousness
10. Directed dreaming: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage and the space of dreams
11. 'In the circle of the lens': Woolf's 'telescopic' story, scene making and memory
12. Virginia Woolf and the art of the novel.
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