Victoria Rosner

Machines for Living

Modernism and Domestic Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, and efficiency science that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780198845195
• ISBN-10: 0198845197
• Artikelnr.: 57375930

Autorenporträt

Victoria Rosner is Dean of the New York University Gallatin School and Professor of Humanities and English. Rosner is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2005), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group ( 2014) and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (2012; with Geraldine Pratt). She is co-editor of the Gender and Culture series, published by Columbia University Press, as well as founding co-editor of the web-based archive Pioneering Women of American Architecture, a project that recovers the histories of US women architects born before 1940.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Machine Age Homes
* 2: Minimum Writing
* 3: "Fear in a Handful of Dust:" Modernism and Germ Theory
* 4: "Regular Hours and Regular Ideas:" Originality in the Age of
Standardization
* 5: Modernism's Missing Children: Mass Production and Human
Reproduction
* 6: The House that Virginia Woolf Built (and Rebuilt)