Before modernism was : modern history and the constituency of writing /

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Author / Creator:Gilbert, Geoff, 1966-
Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Description:xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Language, discourse, society
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5539036
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ISBN:033377051X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-217) and index.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-217) and index.
ISBN:033377051X