Modernism, Space and the City

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City
A Typical Modernist City
Structure and Method
Four Cities

1. Paris
Introduction: A New Babel
T. S. Eliot and the Sordid City
Technology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and Cendrars
Hope Mirrlees on the Metro
Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris
Paris Noir
Swooning in Paris

2. Vienna
Introduction
German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism
Vienna and Die Moderne
After the War: Red Vienna
Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison
City in Ruins

3. Berlin
Introduction: Hellhole and Paradise
Restless and Spacious
Expressionist Voices and Cries
Post-war Visitors
Heterotopias: Cafés and Queer Spaces
Geographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to Artemis
Berlin in the Cold

4. London
Introduction: A Larger University
The Modernist Underground
Metro-Land
Spatial Phobias
Overcoming Modernity
Locations of Culture
Queer Foreign Fish: Joseph Conrad
London Unplaced: Sam Selvon
Afterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms

Bibliography
Index