Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial

by Michael Rubenstein

Book Overview

In Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial, Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the modern state known colloquially as "public utilities" or "water, gas, and electricity." The water tap, the toilet, the gas jet, and the electrical light switch: these are all sites, in Irish modernism, of unexpected literary and linguistic intensities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268040303
• ISBN13: 9780268040307
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"