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Author: Andrew Gaedtke (University of Illinois)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781108418003
ISBN 10: 1108418007
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 26 October 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'Modernism and the Machinery of Madness is an ambitious phenomenological project that very successfully informs whilst also providing a myriad of innovative arguments and observations. Gaedtke's incisive and thorough account of the relationship between the discourses of technology and mental disorder is underscored throughout by precision, originality, and enlightening close textual analysis.' Emily Chester, The British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk) 'Gaedtke's book provides a valuable corrective to narrower conceptions of the modernist canon, especially in recovering outliers like Kavan whose inventive works have been unjustly neglected in the academy ... offers a fascinating, learned, and elegant study of the connections between British midcentury fiction and paranoid phantasmagoria.' Maud Ellmann, Modern Philology 'We can turn to Gaedtke's book to help us understand and give credence to the depressions, paranoias, narcissistic psychopathologies, and cultural fantasies of a whole new generation of writers from Sheila Heti to Rachel Kusk and Ottessa Moshfegh.' Omri Moses, Journal of Modern Literature
'Modernism and the Machinery of Madness is an ambitious phenomenological project that very successfully informs whilst also providing a myriad of innovative arguments and observations. Gaedtke's incisive and thorough account of the relationship between the discourses of technology and mental disorder is underscored throughout by precision, originality, and enlightening close textual analysis.' Emily Chester, The British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk) 'Modernism and the Machinery of Madness is an ambitious phenomenological project that very successfully informs whilst also providing a myriad of innovative arguments and observations. Gaedtke's incisive and thorough account of the relationship between the discourses of technology and mental disorder is underscored throughout by precision, originality, and enlightening close textual analysis.' Emily Chester, The British Society for Literature and Science (bsls.ac.uk)
Author Information
Andrew Gaedtke is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he teaches modernist and contemporary literature.
