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Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere

Title: Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere / Scott McCracken.
Author: McCracken, Scott.
Publication: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

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Description

xv, 201 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Scott McCracken explores the rise of new masculinities in respone to the new woman at the end of the 19th century. He assesses eating and drinking in London and Dublin, and the importance of teashops, cafés and restaurants to the emergence of a new literary culture at the turn of the century.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-196) and index.

Contents

George Gissing, urban modernity and modernism -- Dorothy Richardson and new woman fiction -- Going up in smoke: Mr. Richardson -- Fathers and cities -- On the threshold: Franz Kafka -- Journeys through the city: James Joyce -- Bodily innervation: food, eating and the everyday -- George Gissing and the cultural politics of food -- Smoking and consumption -- Dietetics and aesthetics -- 'Lestrygonians': a place to eat -- Phantasmagoria and the public sphere -- Teashop dreams -- Gissing and eating out -- Modernism's ABC -- Miriam, teashops and the industrialized public sphere -- Kafka, masculinity and the public sphere.

ISBN

9780719044830
0719044839

OCLC

ocm71541704
71541704
SCSB-14533647

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library