Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107622951)

Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H.D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.

Author: Laura Marcus
ISBN-10: 1107622956
ISBN-13: 9781107622951
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2014
Pages: 273
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d