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         - Livre Critique littéraire

        Livre Critique littéraire - 01/12/2025 - Relié - Langue : Anglais

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      • Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
      • Langue : Anglais
      • Parution : 01/12/2025
      • Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
      • Nombre de pages : 350.0
      • ISBN : 9781683933458



      • Résumé :

        Introduction: Are We There Yet? A Materialist Tour by Motor Car through British Interwar Literature
        Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar) and Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

        Part One
        1. The Car and the Crowd in Early Motor Racing
        Arthur Rose (University of Exeter, UK)
        2. Crawling Through No-Man's Land: Exhilaration, Endurance, and Exhaustion in Wartime Ambulance Accounts
        Meg Albrinck (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
        3. Cars within Carriages: Mrs. Dalloway and Queen Alexandra's Rose Day Drive
        Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

        Part Two
        4. The Car in the Hat: A Hispano-Suiza H6 as Diabolus ex machina in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat
        Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar)
        5. Gaining Speed but Losing Direction: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
        Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada)
        6. Love and Recklessness: Speed in To the North
        Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Canada)

        Part Three
        7. Cars and Girls: The Gendered Allure of Small Sports Cars, Risk, and Female Autonomy in Elizabeth Bowen's To the North and on the Race-Track in the 1930s
        Daniela Georgieva (Royal Holloway University, UK)
        8. Autogeddon or Autotopia? D. H. Lawrence, Stella Gibbons, and Clashing Conceptions of Modern (Auto)mobility
        Marlene A. Briggs (University of British Columbia, Canada)
        9. An Automotive Passage to India
        Zena Meadowsong (Independent Scholar)

        Part Four:
        10. Thwarted Automobility and the Imperial Road in Jean Rhys's Writing
        Janet Neigh (Pennsylvania State University, US)
        11. The Motor Car as Modernist Time Machine: John Piper's Oxon and Heterochronic Time
        Sarah Watson (Independent Scholar)

        Index
        About the Contributors

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        Biographie:

        Ann Martin is associate professor in the Department of English at University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

        Chris Townsend is independent scholar, freelance writer on the arts, and curator.

        ...

        Sommaire:
        A collection of essays delving into the textual representations and history of British and Irish car culture. Modernity Must Drivefocuses on British and Irish literature from the first half of the twentieth century, exploring modernist accounts of the motor car according to its layered cultural significance. Engaging with prose by Bowen, Joyce, Rhys, Woolf, Waugh, and others, the volume complicates a reading of the automobile as merely a metaphor for the new. Instead, chapters historicize the complexities of motoring as it is situated in the overlaps between tradition and innovation. The collection comprises readings of the motor car as a lived object, where writers trace experiences of modernity through luxury marques, war-time ambulances, motoring guides, race cars, and roads. In a series of interdisciplinary essays, based in literary and cultural studies, the authors employ new materialist and decolonizing approaches, providing new insights into the social forces that affected individual uses of technology and the modernists who responded to the driving force of machines....

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