Machines for Living

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Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, and efficiency science that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity.

1 Introduction: Machine Age Homes; 2 Minimum Writing; 3 Fear in a Handful of Dust: Modernism and Germ Theory; 4 Regular Hours and Regular Ideas: Originality in the Age of Standardization; 5 Modernism's Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction; 6 The House that Virginia Woolf Built (and Rebuilt)

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ISBN: 9780198845195
Authors: Rosner, Victoria
Language: en
Pages: 288

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