03645nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-56666-0 DE-He213 20251030112650.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240726s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031566660 978-3-031-56666-0 10.1007/978-3-031-56666-0 doi PN1-6790 DSB bicssc LAN000000 bisacsh DSB thema Ellmann, Maud. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81299 The Vacuum Cleaner [electronic resource] : A Cultural Investigation / by Maud Ellmann. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 120 p. 16 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Modernisms, 2661-8281 Chapter 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. This 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. . Literature and technology. Mass media and literature. 66139 Fiction. Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 19th century. Literature and Technology. Fiction Literature. Twentieth-Century Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031566653 Printed edition: 9783031566677 Printed edition: 9783031763885 Material Modernisms, 2661-8281 78002 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56666-0 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 61922 61922