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    Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett

    Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction by Armstrong, Patrick;

    Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 23 July 2026

    • ISBN 9781350420458
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language
    • Illustrations 10 bw illus
    • 700

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    Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between microscopy and modernist fiction.

    Illustrating ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like, this book argues that encounters with the microscopic are often depicted as thresholds between the human and the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction.

    Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this book traces a shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: Microscopy and the Optical Imagination
    Chapter 1: Microbiology and the Modern Novel: D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow
    Chapter 2: Eyes and Microscopes: Marcel Proust's Pluralizing Vision
    Chapter 3: Extensions and Limitations of Vision in Virginia Woolf's Prose
    Chapter 4: Joyce. Radek. Eisenstein.. Beckett: Magnification in Murphy
    Conclusion: Micro to Nano
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