书目名称 | The Vacuum Cleaner | 副标题 | A Cultural Investiga | 编辑 | Maud Ellmann | 视频video | | 概述 | Explores how vacuum cleaners have been represented in literature, art, and other media.Summarizes the technological development of the vacuum cleaner from its unwieldy antecedents to compact robovacs. | 丛书名称 | Material Modernisms | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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.. | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | 关键词 | Cultural history; Modernism; Literature and Cultural Studies; Literature and Class; Vacuum cleaner; Liter | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56666-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-56665-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-56666-0Series ISSN 2661-8273 Series E-ISSN 2661-8281 | issn_series | 2661-8273 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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