About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Sean Latham and Gayle Rodgers
1. “The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde--Technology--Mass Culture,” and “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other” (1986) Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University, USA)
2. “Introduction,” from The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University, USA)
3. “Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and Modernist Rebellion,” (1994) Michael North (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
4. “Modernity and Feminism,” (1995) Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA)
5. “Consuming Investments: Joyce's Ulysses,” (1998) Lawrence Rainey (University of York, UK)
6. “The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism” (1999) Miriam Hansen
7. “Youth in Public: The Little Review and Commercial Culture in Chicago,” (2001) Mark S. Morrisson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
8. “Variations on a Preface” (2003) Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University, USA)
9. “Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies” (2006) Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin, USA)
10. "Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism" (2006) Heather K. Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
11. “The New Modernist Studies” (2008) Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University, USA)
12. “Love and Noise” (2010) Mark Goble (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
13. “Her Own Skin,” (2011) Anne Anlin Cheng (Princeton University, USA)
14. “Introduction,” (2014) Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University, USA)
15. “Metamodernism” (2014) David James (University of Birmingham, UK) and Urmila Seshagiri (University of Tennessee, USA)
16. “Oscar Wilde, Man of Law,” (2018) Robert Spoo (University of Tulsa, USA)
17. “Weak Theory, Weak Modernism” (2018) Paul K. Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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).
Review :
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.
