The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism
Sean Latham · Gayle Rogers
Jan 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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384
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Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century.
The New Modernist Studies Reader features chapters covering the major topics central to the study of modernism today, including:
· Feminism, gender, and sexuality
· Empire and race
· Print and media cultures
· Theories and history of modernism
Each text includes an introductory summary of its historical and intellectual contexts, with guides to further reading to help students and teachers explore the ideas further.
Includes essential texts by leading critics such as: Anne Anlin Cheng, Brent Hayes Edwards, Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman, Mark Goble, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, David James, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Mark S. Morrisson, Michael North, Jessica Pressman, Lawrence Rainey, Paul K. Saint-Amour, Bonnie Kime Scott, Urmila Seshagiri, Robert Spoo, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
The New Modernist Studies Reader features chapters covering the major topics central to the study of modernism today, including:
· Feminism, gender, and sexuality
· Empire and race
· Print and media cultures
· Theories and history of modernism
Each text includes an introductory summary of its historical and intellectual contexts, with guides to further reading to help students and teachers explore the ideas further.
Includes essential texts by leading critics such as: Anne Anlin Cheng, Brent Hayes Edwards, Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman, Mark Goble, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, David James, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Mark S. Morrisson, Michael North, Jessica Pressman, Lawrence Rainey, Paul K. Saint-Amour, Bonnie Kime Scott, Urmila Seshagiri, Robert Spoo, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
About the author
Sean Latham is Pauline Walter Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. He is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and co-founder of the Modernist Journals Project. His many previous publications include The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (2009), and (with Gayle Rogers) Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (2016).
Gayle Rogers is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and associate editor of Critical Quarterly. His publications include Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012), Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (2016), and (with Sean Latham) Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (2015), alongside many articles and translations. He is the author of the forthcoming Speculation: A Cultural History (2021).
Gayle Rogers is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and associate editor of Critical Quarterly. His publications include Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012), Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (2016), and (with Sean Latham) Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (2015), alongside many articles and translations. He is the author of the forthcoming Speculation: A Cultural History (2021).
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