 | Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction Subjects: Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects; Technological innovations -- Social aspects; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Technology in literature; Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. Cobley Evelyn : Evelyn Cobley is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. |
