The Grotesque Modernist Body
Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 27 April 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031543456
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black & white 607
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Short description:
The 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.
Long description:
The 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: 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.
