Reconstructing Modernism
British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State
Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 2020
- ISBN 9780198816485
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 223x146x20 mm
- Weight 488 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Illustrations 7
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Short description:
Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself.
MoreLong description:
Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself.
While the city has long been a focus of literary modernist studies, architectural modernism has never had its due. Scholars usually characterize architectural modernism as a parallel modernism or even an incompatible modernism to literature. Giving special attention to dystopian classics Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this study argues that sustained attention to modern architecture shaped mid-century authors' political and aesthetic commitments. After many writers deemed modernist architects to be agents for communism and other collectivist movements, they squared themselves--and literary modernist detachment and aesthetic autonomy--against the seemingly tyrannical utopianism of modern architecture; literary aesthetic qualities were reclaimed as political qualities. In this way, Reconstructing Modernism redraws the boundaries of literary modernist studies: rather than simply adding to its canon, it argues that the responsibility for defining literary modernism for the mid-century public was shared by an incredible variety of authors--Edwardians, modernists, satirists, and even anti-modernists.
Insightful and lucidly written, this book is an excellent addition to the literature. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Brave New Worlds, Brave New Words, and Brave New Rooms
Waugh, Betjeman, Lewis and the Missed Future of Modernism
Aldous Huxley and the 'Brave New World' of Architectural Modernism
'Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing': Bowen, Isherwood, Orwell, and the 'New' Britain
Planning for War and Peace: Betjeman, Orwell, Waugh, and the Dystopian Documentary
Epilogue: Modernist Afterlives: J. G. Ballard's 'Handful of Dust'
