03287nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100007600220245009400296250001800390264007900408300006600487336002600553337002600579338003600605347002400641490003600665505022400701520134300925650003102268650003102299650001302330650003802343650003802381650003102419650002402450650003402474650003502508710003402543773002602577776003602603776003602639776003602675830003602711856004602747978-3-031-56666-0DE-He21320251030112650.0cr nn 008mamaa240726s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315666607 a10.1007/978-3-031-56666-02doi 4aPN1-6790 7aDSB2bicssc 7aLAN0000002bisacsh 7aDSB2thema1 aEllmann, Maud.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Vacuum Cleanerh[electronic resource] :bA Cultural Investigation /cby Maud Ellmann.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 120 p. 16 illus., 12 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aMaterial Modernisms,x2661-82810 aChapter 1. Suck, Don’t Blow! -- Chapter 2. The Salesman Only Rings Once -- Chapter 3. The Mechanical Maid -- Chapter 4. The Never-Never Plan -- Chapter 5. Tales of Lust and Dust -- Chapter 6. Vampires and Curmudgeons.  aThis book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt. This appliance also insinuates itself into the dominant phobias of the period, including totalitarianism and nuclear war. Maud Ellmann shows how modern literature, art, and other media have transformed this humble domestic mod con into a curmudgeon, windbag, cannibal, vampire, dictator, infanticidal mother, freedom fighter, mantrap, and lothario. Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on modernism, literary theory, and psychoanalysis. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment; Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: Woolf, James, Joyce, and Freud. She has also edited the Longman anthology Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism and co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism. . 0aLiterature and technology. 0aMass media and literature. 0aFiction. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century.14aLiterature and Technology.24aFiction Literature.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aNineteenth-Century Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303156665308iPrinted edition:z978303156667708iPrinted edition:z9783031763885 0aMaterial Modernisms,x2661-828140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56666-0