Modernism, Space and the City

This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

This book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of the multiple relationships between modernist cultural production and urban space. [...] His attention to geographical detail makes this a valuable contribution not just to modernist scholarship, but also to the emerging interdisciplinary field of literary geography.

Modernism, Space and the City illuminates the geographical emotions of a regional transnationalism—the comparative modernisms of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London. Creatively combining affective and materialist approaches to modernism, Thacker bridges urban modernization, avant-garde cultural institutions, and the experiential contours of modernism’s diverse outsiders. A must read on European modernisms!

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He has published extensively upon modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003). He was the first Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal, Literature & History.