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The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents
- Title
- The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents / Laura Frost.
- Author
- Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-6646 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- x, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6646
- ISBN
- 9780231152723 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0231152728 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780231526463 (electronic)
- 0231526466 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012036521
- OCLC
- 811337453
- 811337453
- Author
- Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-
- Title
- The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents / Laura Frost.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6646