Modernism, Space and the City

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He has published extensively upon modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003). He was the first Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal, Literature & History.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist CityA Typical Modernist CityStructure and MethodFour Cities1. ParisIntroduction: A New BabelT. S. Eliot and the Sordid CityTechnology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and CendrarsHope Mirrlees on the Metro Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to ParisParis NoirSwooning in Paris2. ViennaIntroductionGerman Modernism and Regional TransnationalismVienna and Die ModerneAfter the War: Red ViennaVienna Diary: Naomi MitchisonCity in Ruins3. BerlinIntroduction: Hellhole and ParadiseRestless and SpaciousExpressionist Voices and CriesPost-war VisitorsHeterotopias: Cafés and Queer SpacesGeographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to ArtemisBerlin in the Cold4. LondonIntroduction: A Larger UniversityThe Modernist UndergroundMetro-LandSpatial PhobiasOvercoming ModernityLocations of CultureQueer Foreign Fish: Joseph ConradLondon Unplaced: Sam SelvonAfterword: Other Cities, Other ModernismsBibliographyIndex

This book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of the multiple relationships between modernist cultural production and urban space. [...] His attention to geographical detail makes this a valuable contribution not just to modernist scholarship, but also to the emerging interdisciplinary field of literary geography.