Machines for Living

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. 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)

An aparitie	02-01-20
Autor	Rosner, Victoria
Dimensiuni	234x156 mm
Editura	Oxford
Format	Hardback
ISBN	9780198845195
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	288