LEADER 03093nam 2200445 450 001 996487160303316 005 20221121111911.0 010 $a1-4744-8244-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474482448 035 $a(CKB)5700000000118955 035 $a(NjHacI)995700000000118955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30469365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30469365 035 $a(ScCtBLL)52b0b86a-9ada-4fd9-a3dd-ad329d9a59d0 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000118955 100 $a20221121d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAsbestos $eThe Last Modernist Object /$fArthur Rose 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) 225 1 $aEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface: What's the Use of Writing about Asbestos? -- Introduction: Asbestos and Modernism -- 1 A Utopian Impulse -- Introduction -- 1 A Utopian Impulse -- 2 Clues and Mysteries -- Part II: Configuring Asbestos -- Introduction -- 3 Salamander Cotton -- 4 Illness Narratives -- 5 Compensating for Franz Kafka -- Part III: Transforming Asbestos -- Introduction -- 6 The Mine -- 7 The Factory -- 8 The Home -- Conclusion: The Dump -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aFew modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos-Franz Kafka's part ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker-the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials. 410 0$aEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC. 606 $aAsbestos 615 0$aAsbestos. 676 $a363.179 700 $aRose$b Arthur$0336876 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996487160303316 996 $aAsbestos$92982085 997 $aUNISA