Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life

by Justus Nieland

Book Overview

This rigorous and original study combines theories of the public sphere, cinema, and visual culture with a growing body of critical work on affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Justus Nieland challenges these notions by approaching emotion through a poetics of modernist publicity. He argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075463
• ISBN13: 9780252075469
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"