Novel theory and technology in modernist Britain /

"Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fielding, Heather (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Literature and technology > Great Britain. Technology in literature. Literature and technology. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Englisch. Moderne. Roman. Technologie.

Table of Contents:

Readers and machines in modernist novel theory
Point of view as projector : Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the modernist management of reading
What carries the novel : Ford Madox Ford, impressionist connectivity, and the telephone
"Every age has been 'a machine age' " : Wyndham Lewis and the novel's technological temporality
From empathy to the super-cortex : Rebecca West's technics of the novel
Novel theory and technology in late modernism.