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Cross-Channel Modernisms

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Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond Offers cutting-edge explorations of different aspects of artistic exchange between Britain and France, written by experts on both sides of the Channel Provides original close readings of canonical and marginalised modernist texts Opens up new conceptual paradigms by probing multiple meanings related to 'crossing' and 'channelling' modernism Organises chapters around three key themes of 'translating', 'fashioning', 'mediating' that intervene in the new modernist studies Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms 'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchanges in Britain, France and beyond and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of 'crossings' and 'channels' through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent, international context.

Author Biography:

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Universit� Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, where her teaching and research focus on the borders and boundaries of modernism; this includes the translation and reception of Russian literature in the 1910s-20s, cross-Channel modernist dialogues, and literary and musical modernism. Her current research bears on modernist soundscapes and broadcasting in the 1920s-30s. Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature (2022), Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (2013). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (2023) and co-editor of several volumes including Cross-Channel Modernisms (2020), Reading Literary Animals (2019) and The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018). He is Literature Subject Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography. Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Writings of Virginia Woolf, and author of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf (1998); The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006); With you in the Hebrides: Virginia Woolf and Scotland (2013); Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse (2004); and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998).
Release date NZ
March 31st, 2020
Contributors
  • Edited by Claire Davison
  • Edited by Derek Ryan
  • Edited by Jane A. Goldman
Pages
272
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781474441872
Product ID
29190860

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