Modernism Books

New and Published Books

1. Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

   Edited by Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Modern Orthodoxies

   Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

   By Lisa Mulman

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

   The Haunting Interval

   By Luke Thurston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Locating Gender in Modernism

   The Outsider Female

   By Geetha Ramanathan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Modernism and the Marketplace

   Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

   By Alissa G. Karl

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

   By Andrew Shail

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf

   By Joanne Tidwell

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty

   By Andrew John Miller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within)...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Romanticism and Modernity

   Edited by Thomas Pfau, Robert Mitchell

   Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic,...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

    Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

    This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

    Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge