Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study

by Tim Armstrong

Overview

This book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links among modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers. Armstrong shows how modernists subjected the body to new modes of production, representation and commodification as they attempted to render it part of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the received oppositions between technology and literature by demonstrating the complex interconnections between these domains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521599979
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The Regulation of Energies: 1. Electrifying the body; 2. Waste products; Part II. Reshaping the Body: 3. Prosthetic modernism; 4. Auto-facial construction; Part III. Technologies of Gender: 5. Seminal Economies; 6. Making a woman; Part IV. Interruption and Suture: 7. Distracted writing; 8. Film finds a tongue.