LEADER 02940nam 22004695 450 001 9910855389503321 005 20250808083513.0 010 $a9783031543463 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54346-3 035 $a(CKB)31801386200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31308602 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31308602 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54346-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931801386200041 100 $a20240426d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Grotesque Modernist Body $eGothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing /$fby David Cruickshank 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Gothic,$x2634-6222 311 08$a9783031543456 327 $aIntroduction: A Grotesque Modern Moment -- Chapter One: Joseph Conrad: Bodily Authority -- Chapter Two: Wyndham Lewis: Reading Below the Skin -- Chapter Three: T.S. Eliot: The City as Poet -- Chapter Four: Djuna Barnes: The Female Abject of Desire -- Conclusion: The Modern Grotesque Body. 330 $aThe Grotesque Modernist Body explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the grotesque body as a theoretical framework with which to examine rigorously a range of modernist novels, poems and visual media by Conrad, Lewis, Eliot and Barnes, alongside their historical contexts and theories of humour and horror. This monograph challenges the prevailing narrative of modernism?s abstract, psychological and impersonal ?inward turn? by tracing its mechanical-animal hybrid bodies back to the medieval carnival satire of Rabelais, the gothic horror of the long nineteenth century, from Hoffmann, Shelley and Poe to H.G. Wells and Henry James, and the uncanny, dreamlike art of Goya and Rousseau. Dr. David Alexander Johnson Cruickshank is an independent scholar who received his PhD from King?s College London in 2020, following an Oxford MSt and a BA at Queen Mary. His research promotes modernist bodies as a way to understand how colonial capitalism exploits our personal identity, converting socio-economic forces into horrible transformations of human into object, both for modernists then, and for our own modern moment. 410 0$aPalgrave Gothic,$x2634-6222 606 $aGoth culture (Subculture) 606 $aGothic Studies 615 0$aGoth culture (Subculture) 615 14$aGothic Studies. 676 $a306 676 $a809.38729 700 $aCruickshank$b David$01738148 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910855389503321 996 $aThe Grotesque Modernist Body$94160143 997 $aUNINA