Saturday, July 19, 2008

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life, Victoria Rosner’s new study of the shaping role played by interior design in the evolution of literary modernism, is a book of enormous interest, refinement, and originality. The overarching subject — the relation between psychic life and private space — is a profound one; the treatment of individual authors — Wilde, Woolf, Strachey, Forster — full of insight. It reminds one in a way of one of those stylish Omega Workshop textiles Rosner describes so well-being colorful, refreshing, and immediately engaging, but also wrought with intelligen ce and wit. A superb book on the history of modernism in Britain between the wars.” — Terry Castle, editor of The Literature of Lesbianism
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