| Description |
xxiv, 280 pages |
| Series |
Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction / David Bradshaw -- 1. The Life Sciences: "Everybody nowadays talks about evolution" / Angelique Richardson -- 2. Eugenics: "They should certainly be killed" / David Bradshaw -- 3. Nietzscheanism: "The Superman and the all-too-human" / Michael Bell -- 4. Anthropology: "The latest form of evening entertainment" / Jeremy MacClancy -- 5. Bergsonism: "Time out of mind" / Mary Ann Gillies -- 6. Psychoanalysis in Britain: "The rituals of destruction" / Stephen Frosh -- 7. Language: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" / April McMahon -- 8. Technology: "Multiplied man" / Tim Armstrong -- 9. The Concept of the State 1880-1939: "The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well" / Sarah Wilkinson -- 10. Physics: "A strange footprint" / Michael H. Whitworth -- 11. Modernist Publishing: "Nomads and mapmakers" / Peter D. McDonald -- 12. Reading: "'Mind hungers' common and uncommon" / Toddy Avery and Patrick Brantlinger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Bradshaw, David, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2002066419 |
| ISBN |
0631220550 paperback alkaline paper |
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0631220542 alkaline paper |
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