Machines for Living

Victoria Rosner is Dean of the New York University Gallatin School and Professor of Humanities and English. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2005), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group ( 2014) and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (2012; with Geraldine Pratt). She is co-editor of the Gender and Culture series, published by Columbia University Press, as well as founding co-editor of the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture, a project that recovers the histories of US women architects born before 1940.

• 1: Introduction: Machine Age Homes 2: Minimum Writing 3: "Fear in a Handful of Dust:" Modernism and Germ Theory 4: "Regular Hours and Regular Ideas:" Originality in the Age of Standardization 5: Modernism's Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction 6: The House that Virginia Woolf Built (and Rebuilt)

The study is well built, justifying its own necessity throughout; the chapters build seamlessly on each other, and every sentence displays a kind of artisanal care. In this regard, it is probably one of the book's strengths that it does not allow itself to get derailed in rehearsing