Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study

by Tim Armstrong

Book Overview

This book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links among modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers. Armstrong shows how modernists subjected the body to new modes of production, representation and commodification as they attempted to render it part of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521599970
• ISBN13: 9780521599979
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"