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The Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation: Material Modernisms

Autor Maud Ellmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2024
This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt. This appliance also insinuates itself into the dominant phobias of the period, including totalitarianism and nuclear war. Maud Ellmann shows how modern literature, art, and other media have transformed this humble domestic mod con into a curmudgeon, windbag, cannibal, vampire, dictator, infanticidal mother, freedom fighter, mantrap, and lothario.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031566653
ISBN-10: 3031566653
Pagini: 87
Ilustrații: Approx. 85 p. 12 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Material Modernisms

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Suck, Don’t Blow!.- Chapter 2. The Salesman Only Rings Once.- Chapter 3. The Mechanical Maid.- Chapter 4. The Never-Never Plan.- Chapter 5. Tales of Lust and Dust.- Chapter 6. Vampires and Curmudgeons.



Notă biografică

Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, USA.  She has published widely on modernism, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.  Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra PoundThe Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and ImprisonmentElizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: Woolf, James, Joyce, and Freud.  She has also edited the Longman anthology Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism.

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This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt. This appliance also insinuates itself into the dominant phobias of the period, including totalitarianism and nuclear war. Maud Ellmann shows how modern literature, art, and other media have transformed this humble domestic mod con into a curmudgeon, windbag, cannibal, vampire, dictator, infanticidal mother, freedom fighter, mantrap, and lothario.
 
Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago.  She has published widely on modernism, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.  Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra PoundThe Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and ImprisonmentElizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: Woolf, James, Joyce, and Freud.  She has also edited the Longman anthology Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism.
 
 

Caracteristici

Explores how vacuum cleaners have been represented in literature, art, and other media Summarizes the technological development of the vacuum cleaner from its unwieldy antecedents to compact robovacs Charts the rise of the vacuum cleaner alongside the emergence of the professional housewife and door-to-door salesman