The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism

Review

This Readerprovides an invaluable road map for students of the New Modernist Studies-where it came from, some of the paths it's traveled, where it might be headed.
Debra Rae Cohen, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina, USA

What questions motivated the New Modernist Studies, and what arguments shaped the field? Latham and Rogers offer a collection that will let readers answer these and other queries for themselves. With each selection framed by headnotes that provide context for specific interventions, The New Modernist Studies Reader offers a chronological roadmap of how the field expanded and made itself new.

Product Description

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.

About the Author

Sean Latham isPauline 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, co-founder of the Modernist Journals Project. His teaching and research focuses on modernist studies, James Joyce, periodicals, media theory, and the digital humanities. He is the author or editor of nine books including “Am I a Snob?”: Modernism and the Novel ( 2003), The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (2009), and The Little Review Ulysses (2015).

Gayle Rogers is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He works primarily on global modernisms, literary history, translation, comparative literature, and periodicals. His publications include Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (2016), Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012), and a number of works in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Comparative Literature, NOVEL, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, and 100 Escritores del siglo XX.