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Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic
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Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic Hardcover - 2019

by Davidson, Michael

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Oxford University Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 9x0x6. Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.
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  • Title Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic
  • Author Davidson, Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 222
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Date 2019
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 202567
  • ISBN 9780198832812 / 0198832818
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects History, People with disabilities
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018958826
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700

From the publisher

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period marked by progressive reforms in health, labor, and welfare. Readings of texts by Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, F.T. Marinetti, Jean Toomer, an opera by Alexander Zemlinsky, and paintings and constructions by dadaists and surrealists are set against the historical developments in sexology, medical discourse, and the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and anthropometry.

Modernist works are well known for challenging formal features of narration and representation, but it is seldom observed that this challenge has often been enabled by figures of shell-shocked veterans, tubercular heroines, blind soothsayers, invalid aesthetes, and neurasthenic women. Such figures complicate an aesthetics of autonomy by which modernism is often understood. Since its evolution in the eighteenth century, aesthetics has been seen in terms of judgments based on detached appreciation. What begins as a highly privative, sensate response to an object or natural formation results in a disinterested judgment about the value of that response. By looking at modernist aesthetics through a disability optic, Invalid Modernism attempts to restore the missing body to aesthetics by disclosing a structure of feeling around dramatic changes in modernity. These changes are registered on and through the bodies and minds of figures considered in medical discourse of the period as 'invalid' citizens and subjects.

About the author

Michael Davidson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century, Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics, and Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics. His work in disability studies can be seen in Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body published by the University of Michigan Press. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen. He is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems from Coffee House Press.

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