Dreams of modernity : psychoanalysis, literature, cinema / Laura Marcus.

  • Marcus, Laura
Date:
2014
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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 explores gender and sexuality in the period, and the work 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, raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity. --Book Jacket.

Publication/Creation

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Physical description

x, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The lodger -- 2. Oedipus express : psychoanalysis and the railways -- Railway reading -- 'From autumn to spring, aesthetics change' : modernity's visual displays -- 5. 'A hymn to the movement' : the 'city symphony' of the 1920s and 1930s -- Staging the 'private theatre' : gender and the auto-erotics of reverie -- The newness of the 'new biography' : biographical theory and practice in the early twentieth century -- European witness : analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s -- Dreaming and the cinematographic consciousness -- Directed dreaming : Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage and the space of dreams -- 'In the circle of the lens' : Woolf's 'telescopic' story, scene making and memory -- Virginia Woolf and the art of the novel.

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  • 9781107044968
  • 1107044960
  • 9781107622951
  • 1107622956