Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema

by Laura Marcus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107622956
• ISBN13: 9781107622951
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"