Books by Tim (Royal Holloway Armstrong

Tim Armstrong explores the cultural metaphors underpinning slavery and its legacy using a range of American art and literature, focusing especially on the writings of African-American authors like Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison.

* The first volume in a new Polity literary studies series, 'Themes in 20th Century Literature and Culture'. * Combines a clear argument for those with no prior knowledge or experience of Modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars.

Tim Armstrong addresses the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. He draws on a wide range of disciplines to demonstrate the complex interconnections between technology and literature to provide a cultural history modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.