| Thesis Abstract
This thesis reevaluates modernist conceptions of technology, place, and community, using the works of Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway as case studies.. Specifically, I argue that modernists had a distinctly different concept of technology, viewing it as part of nature rather than pitted against it. By pairing modernist studies of technology with ecocritical concepts of place and globality, I argue that a healthier understanding of place which reconciles concepts of the global and local can be developed. |