Few modern materials have been as central to histories of
environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as
asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its
ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the
horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the
established history of asbestos from a literary critical
perspective, showing how literature and film during and after
modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through
the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on
human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have
had with asbestos Franz Kafka's part-ownership of an asbestos
factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's
early life as an asbestos factory worker the book looks to
literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and
medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary
approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and
the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos The Last
Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using
cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies
of toxic materials.Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Exeter.
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