Modernism and the culture of efficiency: ideology and fiction
Auteur :
Cobley, Evelyn
Éditeur :
University of Toronto Press
ISBN :
9780802099570
Date de publication :
18 août 2009
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,7 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
680 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Canada
Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency.