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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Will to Literature

David Trotter

  • Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by Lawrence Rainey
  • Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong
  • Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative by Harold Segel
  • Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production by Douglas Mao

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David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.

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