LEADER 02300nam 22003613a 450 001 9910831812703321 005 20231108184546.0 035 $a(CKB)5580000000514222 035 $a(ScCtBLL)51000198-ecd0-4855-a303-d9603d21bb72 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000514222 100 $a20231108i20222022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAsbestos - The Last Modernist Object$fArthur Rose 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a9781474482455 311 08$a1474482457 330 $aFew modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos-Franz Kafka's part ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker-the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Comparative Literature$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Comparative Literature 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aRose$b Arthur$0336876 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831812703321 996 $aAsbestos$92982085 997 $aUNINA