Dreams of Modernity

Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema

Laura Marcus author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Nov '14

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This volume addresses the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.

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. Throughout this work, Marcus addresses the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.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.

ISBN: 9781107622951

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 410g

273 pages