The Oxford handbook of Jack London
Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: "Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition." Modernity "is an urban condition" "reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century ... a mass phen...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2017, 2017
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Series: | Oxford handbooks online / Oxford handbooks online
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Collection: | Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: "Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition." Modernity "is an urban condition" "reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century ... a mass phenomenon" characterised by the rise of technology, print culture, and material consumption. Jack London, who is routinely categorised as a naturalist and realist, can also be called a modernist. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the breadth of scholarship in this present volume gives the categorisation new meaning |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9780190605490 |