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Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life de Victoria Rosner

Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Autor Victoria Rosner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2020
Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity.

Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198845195
ISBN-10: 0198845197
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 24 Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity.

Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.

Recenzii

The study is well built, justifying its own necessity throughout; the chapters build seamlessly on each other, and every sentence displays a kind of artisanal care. In this regard, it is probably one of the book's strengths that it does not allow itself to get derailed in rehearsing
Rosner (Columbia Univ.) offers a fresh, interdisciplinary, and prodigiously researched examination of the connection between modernism and the changes in household design and private life that occurred in the 1920s and 1930s...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Rosner establishes clear and persuasive connections between developments in domestic architecture and design and many of the key formal and stylistic characteristics of modernist literature... [Rosner] conclusively demonstrates the centrality of new ideas and theories of the domestic space to modernist literature, and which, in doing so, makes a vital contribution to modernist criticism.

Notă biografică

Victoria Rosner is Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University School of General Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her scholarship focuses on modernist aesthetics across different forms of cultural production, as well as life-writing and gender studies. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Columbia UP, 2005), winner of the ModernistStudies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group (Cambridge UP, 2014) and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Columbia UP, 2012; with Geraldine Pratt). With Nancy K. Miller, she edits the Gender and Culture book series for ColumbiaUniversity Press. Her most recent project is the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture (with Mary McLeod).