This project seeks to examine the way in which modernist novelists John Dos Passos, Claude McKay, Louis Aragon, and Virginia Woolf depict urban spaces in the early-twentieth century metropolises of New York, Paris, and London. These writers depict spaces that have been influenced by capitalist and imperialist powers, yet they also depict places within the urban environment that serve as locations of resistance where they depict power's damaging effects on the spaces of the city. Drawing on significant conversations in the field of postmodern geography, my project situates these modernist writers as critics of the power's ability to produce its own spaces that it, in turn, uses to control and produce docile urban subjectivities. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / April 3, 2015. / Literature, London, Modernism, New York, Paris, Urbanism / Includes bibliographical references. / Barry J. Faulk, Professor Directing Dissertation; Reineir Leushuis, University Representative; Andrew Epstein, Committee Member; S.E. Gontarski, Committee Member; Robin Goodman, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253464 |
| Contributors | McKee, Adam R. (authoraut), Faulk, Barry J. (professor directing dissertation), Leushuis, Reinier, 1969- (university representative), Epstein, Andrew, 1969- (committee member), Gontarski, S. E. (committee member), Goodman, Robin Truth (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of English (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (161 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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