Novel theory and technology in modernist Britain /

"Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism...

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Main Author: Fielding, Heather
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University press 2018
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and technology
Technology in literature.
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