Books and Where to Find Them

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology

• Proposes significant new ways for understanding the intersections of modernism and technology

• Includes original research contributions from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of modernist scholars

• Offers a key research resource for scholars in modernist studies and cognate areas

• Provides a classroom-ready collection of essays relevant to undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist literature, art and culture

Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance

Gertrude Hoffmann made her name in the early twentieth century as an imitator, copying highbrow performances staged in Europe and popularizing them for a broader American audience. Born in San Francisco, Hoffmann started working as a ballet girl in pantomime spectacles during the Gay Nineties. She performed through the heyday of vaudeville and later taught dancers and choreographed nightclub revues. After her career ended, she reflected on how vaudeville’s history was represented in film and television.

Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway

For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city's identity, even as judgments of its value have varied. It has been celebrated as the technological embodiment of the American melting pot and reviled as a blighted urban netherworld. Underground Movements explores the many meanings of the subway by looking back at the era when it first ascended to cultural prominence, from its opening in 1904 through the mid-1960s.