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The problem with pleasure modernism and its discontents

Title
The problem with pleasure [electronic resource] : modernism and its discontents / Laura Frost.
Author
Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 292 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Problem with pleasure (Online)
Alternative Title
Problem with pleasure (Online)
Subject
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Pleasure in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-279) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: The repudiation of pleasure -- James Joyce and the scent of modernity -- Stein's tickle -- Orgasmi discipline: D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Hull, and interwar erotic fiction -- Huxley's feelies: engineered pleasure in Brave new world -- The impasse of pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys -- Blondes have more fun: Anita Loos and the language of silent cinema -- Coda: Modernism's afterlife in the age of prosthetic pleasure.
LCCN
2012036521
OCLC
ssj0000918551
Author
Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-
Title
The problem with pleasure [electronic resource] : modernism and its discontents / Laura Frost.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-279) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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