The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism

✍ Scribed by Sean Latham; Gayle Rogers

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

✦ Synopsis

Edition description:
Bringing together 20 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
• Historical and geographical debates
Each text includes an introductory summary of its historical and intellectual contexts, as well as guides to further reading to help students and teachers explore the ideas further.
Includes essential texts by leading critics such as: Pascale Casanova, Anne Anlin Cheng, Brent Hayes Edwards, Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman, Mark Goble, Miriam Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, David James, Fredric Jameson, 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 Walkowitz.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Excerpt from After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
Chapter 2: Introduction to The Gender of Modernism
Chapter 3: Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and The Modernist Rebellion
Chapter 4: Modernity and Feminism
Chapter 5: Consuming Investments: Joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 6: The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
Chapter 7: Youth in Public: The Little Review and Commercial Culture in Chicago
Chapter 8: Variations on a Preface
Chapter 9: Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies
Chapter 10: Forced Exile: Walter Pater’s Queer Modernism
Chapter 11: The New Modernist Studies
Chapter 12: Love and Noise
Chapter 13: Her Own Skin
Chapter 14: Introduction to Digital Modernism
Chapter 15: Metamodernism: Narratives of Continuity and Revolution
Chapter 16: Oscar Wilde, Man of Law
Chapter 17: Weak Theory, Weak Modernism
Index