The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life

Author/Contributor(s):	Davis, Thomas
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	12/03/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire.