Alex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Gender, Leisure Technology and Modernist Poetry: Machine Amusements (2019),Technology, Literature and Culture (2011) and Modernist Articulations: a cultural study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein (2007), and co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology (2022), Reading Westworld (2019) and American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (2009). Ian Whittington is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939–1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) as well as a number of essays on radio studies and twentieth-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literature.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernist Technology Studies - Alex Goody and Ian Whittington I. Machines1. Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics - Laura Ludtke2. Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock - Charles Tung3. Print: Anaïs Nin’s Embodied Encounters with Print Technology - Jennifer Sorensen4. Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose - Sunny Stalter-Pace5. Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed’s Visual Limit-field - Enda Duffy6. Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s - Leo Mellor7. Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia - Katherine ShinglerII. Media8. Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric - David Trotter9. Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early-Twentieth-century America - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox10. Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight - Alix Beeston11. X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions - Tom Slevin12. Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac’s ‘Integral Cinema’, Form and Spirit - Felicity Gee13. Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology - Emily Bloom14. Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening - Josh Epstein15. Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde’s Technological Imaginary - Emilie Morin16. Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas - Damien KeaneIII. Bodies17. Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body - Jana Funke18. Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity - Joshua Lam19. Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler - Jeff Wallace20. Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism - Maebh Long21. Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction - Anna SnaithIV. Systems22. Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state - Janice Ho23. Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems - Jennifer L. Lieberman24. Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers - Caroline Z. Krzakowski25. Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker - James Purdon26. Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism - Andrew Pilsch27. Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920–2020 - Shawna Ross28. War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime - Patrick Deer

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