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Before Modernism Was

Modern History and the Constituency of Writing

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Geoff Gilbert

    1. The American University of Paris, France

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Modern History and the Disavowal of Possibility

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 1-22

  3. Property: The Preoccupation of Modernism

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 23-50

  4. Boys: Manufacturing Inefficiency

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 51-73

  5. Poles: The Centre of Europe

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 74-101

  6. Dogs: Small Domestic Forms

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 102-134

  7. Smoke: Craving History

    • Geoff Gilbert
    Pages 135-166

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 167-222
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About this book

Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that affects the value of your property; the sulky, graceless adolescent; the Pole who may not be Polish; the nervous owner of the dog; the addict and her smoke. Eccentric to its institutions, these figures are central to the constituency of modernism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The American University of Paris, France

    Geoff Gilbert

About the author

GEOFF GILBERT is Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. He writes about and teaches modernism, European fiction, cultural studies, and sexuality.

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