Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex

by Timothy Wientzen

Book Overview

A fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period.

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421440881
• ISBN13: 9781421440880
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"