“This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
This study focuses on the narrative section which forms the climax of Wyndham Lewis’s 1937 novel The Revenge for Love and which represents the experience of speeding in a car from the point of view of the female protagonist, Margot Stamp. I argue that Lewis’s depiction of speed in his novel extends...
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| description | This study focuses on the narrative section which forms the climax of Wyndham Lewis’s 1937 novel The Revenge for Love and which represents the experience of speeding in a car from the point of view of the female protagonist, Margot Stamp. I argue that Lewis’s depiction of speed in his novel extends his critique of the technophilia he dubbed “machine-mindedness” and alludes to, at the same time as it implicitly criticises, the Futurist adulation of speed. As a visual artist, Lewis represents the experience of speeding as a violently distorted and traumatic way of seeing and also satirises female gender stereotypes in his representation of Margot’s experience of speeding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-19e8af607a1f47f395f6ab3eb24f4d5d2022-12-21T17:50:35ZengUniversité Toulouse - Jean JaurèsMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone2108-65592016-03-011210.4000/miranda.8626“This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham LewisAnnelie FitzgeraldThis study focuses on the narrative section which forms the climax of Wyndham Lewis’s 1937 novel The Revenge for Love and which represents the experience of speeding in a car from the point of view of the female protagonist, Margot Stamp. I argue that Lewis’s depiction of speed in his novel extends his critique of the technophilia he dubbed “machine-mindedness” and alludes to, at the same time as it implicitly criticises, the Futurist adulation of speed. As a visual artist, Lewis represents the experience of speeding as a violently distorted and traumatic way of seeing and also satirises female gender stereotypes in his representation of Margot’s experience of speeding.http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/8626genderFuturismsatirespeedVorticism |
| spellingShingle | Annelie Fitzgerald “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone gender Futurism satire speed Vorticism |
| title | “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis |
| title_full | “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis |
| title_fullStr | “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis |
| title_full_unstemmed | “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis |
| title_short | “This rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay”: The Textual/Sexual Dynamics of Speed in The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis |
| title_sort | this rushing cosmos filled her with a bleak dismay the textual sexual dynamics of speed in the revenge for love by wyndham lewis |
| topic | gender Futurism satire speed Vorticism |
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