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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809882603321

Autore

Wientzen Timothy <1981->

Titolo

Automatic : literary modernism and the politics of reflex / / Timothy Wientzen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4214-4089-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Collana

Hopkins studies in Modernism

Disciplina

820.9112

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature

Modernism (Literature)

Literature and society

Conditioned response in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; 1. Automatic Man: A Genealogy -- ; 2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity -- ; 3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government -- ; 4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities -- ; 5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late Modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

"Reconstructing a vast archive of writing about reflex behaviors, this book demonstrates the ways in which a "politics of reflex" came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era"--