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02567aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 570AEF1A0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210903010031 008 190419s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019945426 020 $a 0198845197 020 $a 9780198845195 035 $a (OCoLC)1097575672 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d BDX $d OCLCF $d DLC $d TJCBL $d GUA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a PR478 M6 R67 2020 100 1 $a Rosner, Victoria, $e author. 245 10 $a Machines for living : $b modernism and domestic life / $c Victoria Rosner. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 292 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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. 0Even 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. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Modernism and domestic life in the Machine Age -- Minimum writing -- "Fear in a handful of dust": Modernism and germ theory -- "Regular hours, and regular ideas": originality in an age of standardization -- Modernism's missing children: mass production and human reproduction -- The house that Virginia Woolf built (and rebuilt) -- Coda. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z Great Britain. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302021323.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=570AEF1A0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search