The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
- ISBN-10
- 0231152728
- ISBN-13
- 9780231152723
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-16
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Laura Frost
Description
A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period's formal and ideological innovations.
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