Geographies of modernism: literatures, cultures and spaces

摘要

This is a book situated between the fields of literary, media, and cultural studies, geography, architecture, and history. Its focus - the emerging 'spatial turn' in studies of modernist literature, art, architecture and more - is a fascinating one. But despite this the book is strangely uneven and rather disappointing. The introduction to a collection like this needs to set a clear agenda, but it does little more than suggest that historicist criticism should involve some consideration of space. What this might mean is largely left to the contributors, who seem equally uncertain.