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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, [2013], ©2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN56.M54 F76 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 292 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780231152723 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0231152728 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780231526463 (electronic)
- 0231526466 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012036521
- OCLC
- ocn811337453
- 811337453
- SCSB-5702379
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries