The New Modernist Studies
The New Modernist Studies
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This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and challenges as both a mode of inquiry and an institutional formation. In its first section, the volume offers a fresh history of the new modernist studies' origins amid the intellectual configurations of the end of the twentieth century and changing views of the value, influence, and scope of modernism. In the second section a dozen leading scholars examine recent trends in modernist scholarship to suggest possible new paths of research, showing how the field continues to engage with other areas of study and how it makes a case for the ongoing meaning of modernist literature and art in the contemporary world.
- Includes detailed accounts of intellectual milieu into which the new modernist studies emerged as well as a rich institutional history of the early years of the field
- Explores new directions in modernist studies and offers readers a sense of where the new modernist studies may be headed in the near future
- Chapters provide an enthusiastic, informed take on a continuously evolving field
Reviews & endorsements
'… essential reading for all in this amorphous, contested field.' Abbie Garrington, Modern Language Review
Product details
- Published: February 2021
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781108487061
- Length: 368 pages
- Dimensions: 230 × 150 × 25 mm
- Weight: 0.69kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction Douglas Mao
- Part I. Histories
- 1. History's Prehistory: Modernist Studies before the New Michael North
- 2. Scholarship's Turn: Origins and Effects of the New Modernist Studies Mark Wollaeger
- Part II. Horizons:
- 3. Planetarity's Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism María del Pilar Blanco
- 4. Religion's Configurations:Modernism, Empire, Comparison Susan Stanford Friedman
- 5. Disability's Disruptions: Embodiment and the New Modernist Studies Maren Linett
- 6. Affect's Vocabularies: Literature and Feeling after 1890 David James
- 7. Invisibility's Arts: The Seen and the Unseen in Modernism and Modernist Studies Sarah Cole
- 8. Black Writing's Visuals: African American Modernism in Nugent, Ligon, and Rankine Miriam Thaggert
- 9. Noir Film's Soundtracks: Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Genres of Criminality Edwin Hill
- 10. Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization Aarthi Vadde
- 11. Revolution's Demands: Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto Steven Lee
- 12. Feminism's Archives: Intersectionality with Loy and Mendelssohn Sara Crangle
- 13. Risk's Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance Gayle Rogers
- 14. Deep Time's Hauntings: Modernism and Alternative Chronology Paul Saint-Amour.
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