The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism

✍ Scribed by Sean Latham (editor), Gayle Rogers (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.