Expert Modernists, Matricide and Modern Culture
This book links the leading innovators of modernism to the cult of the modern expert. In historicizing modernism as a distinct mode of knowledge that competes with other forms of expertise from law to psychology, Lois Cucullu shows how three modernist experts - Woolf, Forster, and Joyce - used technical innovations in the novel to replace reigning Victorian beliefs about marriage, procreation and the family. Modernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cultural class the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois household.
| Autor: | Cucullu, L. |
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| ISBN: | 9781403935311 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 13.08.2004 |
| Untertitel: | Woolf, Forster, Joyce |
| Schlagworte: | B British and Irish Literature British literature European Literature Fiction Fiction & related items Fiction Literature Gender Studies Gender studies, gender groups Literary History Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literature, Modern—20th century Literature: history & criticism Literature—History and criticism Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection Sociology Twentieth-Century Literature marriage;Modernism;novel;Victorian era;women;Woolf |
LOIS CUCULLU is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. She has previously published on British and American modernism, feminist criticism, gender studies and postcolonial studies.