Maud Ellmann: The Vacuum Cleaner
The Vacuum Cleaner
Buch
- A Cultural Investigation
- Springer Nature Switzerland, 07/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031566653
- Bestellnummer: 11930341
- Umfang: 136 Seiten
- Auflage: 2024
- Gewicht: 187 g
- Maße: 210 x 148 mm
- Stärke: 8 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.7.2024
- Serie: Material Modernisms
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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
The Vacuum Cleaner
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