The New Modernist Studies

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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. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Dedication Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: The New Modernist Studies Modernist and Other Studies Modernist Studies Studies Modernism contra Studies Notes I Histories Chapter 1 History's Prehistory: Modernist Studies before the New I II III IV Notes Chapter 2 Scholarship's Turn: Origins and Effects of the New Modernist Studies Modernist Studies Association and Conference Modernist Publishing: Modernism/modernity and Modernist Book Series How New Is New? Notes II Horizons Chapter 3 Planetarity's Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism Versions of ''Planetarity'' Planetarity as Practice: How (Not) to Read Otherness Friedman's Planetary Modernisms and the Shifting Boundaries of Modernism Literary Influence, Linguistic Expertise, and the Routes into and out of Paris: The Case of Spanish American modernismo Notes Chapter 4 Religion's Configurations: Modernism, Empire, Comparison Contemporary Religious Studies Religion in Comparative Modernisms Gora and A Passage to India Huda Shaarawi and H.D. Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 Disability's Disruptions: Embodiment and the New Modernist Studies Modernist Disability Studies Conrad's Heart of Darkness Bowen's House in Paris Bowen's ''Look at All Those Roses'' Disability's Disruptions Notes Chapter 6 Affect's Vocabularies: Literature and Feeling after 1890 Archives of Affect Style as Transformation Against Interiority Feeling for the Facts, Reading beyond Compassion Notes Chapter 7 Invisibility's Arts: The Seen and the Unseen in Modernism and Modernist Studies Notes Chapter 8 Black Writing's Visuals: African American Modernism in Nugent, Ligon, and Rankine Nugent: Material ''Smoke'' Ligon and Rankine: Intertextuality and the American Landscape Conclusion Notes Chapter 9 Noir Film's Soundtracks: Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Genres of Criminality Liner Notes: ''Overhearing'' A-Side: Miles and Malle: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud B-Side: Melville, Martial and Solal: Deux hommes dans Manhattan Notes Chapter 10 Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization Engineering Dreams Modernist Dream Books Notes Chapter 11 Revolution's Demands: Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto Notes Chapter 12 Feminism's Archives: Mina Loy, Anna Mendelssohn, and Taxonomy Notes Chapter 13 Risk's Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance Modernism and Risk Society Finance, Futurity, and Modernist Speculators Speculative Fiction and the Risks of Race: George Schuyler's Black No More (1931) Notes Chapter 14 Deep Time's Hauntings: Modernism and Alternative Chronology Notes Bibliography Index