Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism
- ISBN-10
- 0719053099
- ISBN-13
- 9780719053092
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 245
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-05-02
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Authors
- Andrew Thacker, Professor of Twentieth Century Literature School of English Performance and Historical Studies de Montfort University Andrew Thacker
Description
The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.
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