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Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life
Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life
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Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to
be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent
concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how
the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.
Author: Victoria Rosner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/04/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198845195
Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2021
well as life-writing and gender studies. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Columbia UP, 2005), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group (Cambridge UP, 2014) and The Global
and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Columbia UP, 2012; with Geraldine Pratt). With Nancy K. Miller, she edits the Gender and Culture book series for Columbia University Press. Her most recent project is the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture (with Mary McLeod).
be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent
concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how
the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.
Author: Victoria Rosner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/04/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198845195
Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2021
About the Author
Victoria Rosner, Dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
well as life-writing and gender studies. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Columbia UP, 2005), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group (Cambridge UP, 2014) and The Global
and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (Columbia UP, 2012; with Geraldine Pratt). With Nancy K. Miller, she edits the Gender and Culture book series for Columbia University Press. Her most recent project is the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture (with Mary McLeod).
