Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction - Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between microscopy and modernist fiction. Illustrating ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like, this book argues that encounters with the microscopic are often depicted as thresholds between the human and the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction.Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this book traces a shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable.>

Info autore

Patrick Armstrong holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has taught at Cambridge, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the Université d’Orléans, France.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patrick Armstrong
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.12.2024
• EAN: 9781350420182
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42018-2
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets