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Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light

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Description for Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light Electronic book text. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474419598
SKU
V9781474419598
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About Emily Ridge
Emily Ridge is Lecturer in English Literature at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Reviews for Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light
Portable Modernisms is stunning in the breadth of material covered.
Susanne S. Cammack, Project Muse

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