Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry

Illuminates how the power of light shaped early twentieth-century art, culture, and poetry.

In Brilliant Modernism, Nicoletta Asciuto takes readers on a journey through the electrified streets of the early twentieth century and explores the influence of this illumination on modernist poetry. This ambitious and geographically wide-ranging account of how poets responded to the changing cityscape is distinctive in its historicist approach and the enormous scope of the materials it examines, fro...