The New Modernist Studies

The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.

Douglas Mao (Edited by)

9781108732147, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 February 2021

280 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg

This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and challenges as both a mode of inquiry and an institutional formation. In its first section, the volume offers a fresh history of the new modernist studies' origins amid the intellectual configurations of the end of the twentieth century and changing views of the value, ?influence, and scope of modernism. In the second section a dozen leading scholars examine recent trends in modernist scholarship to suggest possible new paths of research, showing how the field continues to engage with other areas of study and how it makes a case for the ongoing meaning of modernist literature and art in the contemporary world.

Introduction Douglas Mao
Part I. Histories
1. History's Prehistory: Modernist Studies before the New Michael North
2. Scholarship's Turn: Origins and Effects of the New Modernist Studies Mark Wollaeger
Part II. Horizons: 3. Planetarity's Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism María del Pilar Blanco
4. Religion's Configurations:Modernism, Empire, Comparison Susan Stanford Friedman
5. Disability's Disruptions: Embodiment and the New Modernist Studies Maren Linett
6. Affect's Vocabularies: Literature and Feeling after 1890 David James
7. Invisibility's Arts: The Seen and the Unseen in Modernism and Modernist Studies Sarah Cole
8. Black Writing's Visuals: African American Modernism in Nugent, Ligon, and Rankine Miriam Thaggert
9. Noir Film's Soundtracks: Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Genres of Criminality Edwin Hill
10. Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization Aarthi Vadde
11. Revolution's Demands: Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto Steven Lee
12. Feminism's Archives: Intersectionality with Loy and Mendelssohn Sara Crangle
13. Risk's Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance Gayle Rogers
14. Deep Time's Hauntings: Modernism and Alternative Chronology Paul Saint-Amour.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary theory [DSA]