Disciplining Modernism

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/ Modernity/Modernism....Pages 11-32
Uncanny Modernism, or Analysis Interminable....Pages 33-52
Imagining World Literatures: Modernism and Comparative Literature....Pages 53-70
Taking the Detour, Finding the Rebels: Crossroads of Caribbean and Modernist Studies....Pages 71-91
Religion and Modernity: The Case of the Lourdes Shrine in Nineteenth-Century France....Pages 92-108
Balzac’s Golden Triangles in the Colonial Genealogies of French Modernism....Pages 109-127
Modern, Moderne, and Modernistic: Le Corbusier, Thomas Wallis and the Problem of Art Deco....Pages 128-146
Fantasies of the New Class: New Criticism, Harvard Sociology, and the Idea of the University....Pages 147-166
Downsizing the ‘Great Divide’: A Reflexive Approach to Modernism, Disciplinarity, and Class....Pages 167-181
Lady Chatterley’s Broker: Banking on Modernism....Pages 182-196
Modernism, Economics, Anthropology....Pages 197-209
Modernist Studies and Anthropology: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Possible Futures....Pages 210-220
‘The Famished Roar of Automobiles’: Modernity, the Internal Combustion Engine, and Modernism....Pages 221-241
The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism....Pages 242-258
Afterword....Pages 259-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-296