The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism

by Paul Haacke

From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatlantic Modernism, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198851448
• ISBN13: 9780198851448
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"