Masculinities, Modernist Fiction and the Urban Public Sphere
Scott McCracken
ISBN: 0719044839
Hardback
Manchester University Press
At the end of the nineteenth century the public culture of Europe's cities underwent a transformation that changed both gender relations and European fiction. Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague.
This book will be of interest to all those interested in modernist fiction, but equally to cultural historians and those working in gender studies and urban studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction : masculinities and the urban public sphere
New women, new men
George Gissing, urban modernity and modernism
Dorothy Richardson and new woman fiction
Going up in smoke : Mr Richardson
Fathers and cities
On the threshold : Franz Kafka
Journeys through the city : James Joyce
Bodies
Bodily innervation : food, eating and the everyday
George Gissing and the cultural politics of food
Smoking and consumption
Dietetics and aesthetics
'Lestrygonians' : a place to eat
Cities
Phantasmagoria and the public sphere
Teashop dreams
Gissing and eating out
Modernism's ABC
Miriam, teashops and the industrialised public sphere
Kafka, masculinity and the public sphere