Before Modernism Was

GEOFF GILBERT is Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. He writes about and teaches modernism, European fiction, cultural studies, and sexuality.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Modern History and the Disavowal of Possibility Property: The Preoccupation of Modernism Boys: Manufacturing Inefficiency Poles: The Centre of Europe Dogs: Small Domestic Forms Smoke: Craving History Notes Bibliography Index