Before Modernism Was Modern History and the Constituencies of Writing 1900-30
, by Gilbert, GeoffNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780333770511 | 033377051X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2005
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.