Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex

by Timothy Wientzen

Book Overview

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421440881
• ISBN13: 9781421440880
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"