Feeling modern : the eccentricities of public life
This study combines theories of public sphere, cinema, visual culture and affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Nieland argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public, rather than as private property of the self
xv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780252033377, 9780252075469, 025203337X, 0252075463
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Introduction: Eccentric feeling
Tough crowds
Eccentric types
Kumraderie
Light figures
Tenderness
Dead pan
The passion to be a person
Epilogue: Charlie Chaplin and the revenge of the eccentric