Canis Modernis Emily Brooks from emotion to the persistence

from emotion to the persistence of memory

This timely and panoramic work offers penetrating historical analysis of the role of politics

through the expansive post-Civil War era

two decades later

Beset by contradictions

Canis Modernis Emily Brooks from emotion to the persistenceModernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyces Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolfs Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became a potent symbol of the modern conditionfacing, like the human species, the problem of adapting to modernizing forces that relentlessly