The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives

Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen, Erik Tonning, Jamie Callison, Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen, Erik Tonning

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781350450554
• eBook ISBN: 9781350450561
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful bibliographical resources) and a guide to avenues for future work. Archival work in modernist studies has revolutionised the discipline in the past two decades, fuelled by innovative and ambitious scholarly editing projects and a growing interest in fresh types of archival sources and evidence that can re-contextualise modernist writing. Several theoretical trends have prompted this development, including the focus on compositional process within genetic manuscript studies, the emphasis on book history, little magazines, and wider publishing contexts, and the emphasis on new material evidence and global and 'non-canonical' authors and networks within the 'New Modernist Studies'. This book provides a guide to the variety of new archival research that will point to fresh avenues and connect the methodologies and resources being developed across modernist studies. Offering a variety of single-author case studies on recent archival developments and editing projects, including Samuel Beckett, Hart Crane, H.D., James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf, it also offers a range of thematic essays that examine an array of underused sources as well as the challenges facing archival researchers of modernism

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Re-Presenting and Re-Imagining Modernist Archives
• Part I: Authors
• 1 Materials from a ‘World Record’: W. B. Yeats and His Archives
• 2 ‘Will Future Editor Kindly Omit …’: Evelyn Waugh in Conversation with His Archives
• 3 ‘True to Oneself! Which Self?’: Katherine Mansfield in Her Letters
• 4 Fragmentary, Elusive, Modernist: The Mina Loy Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• 5 Archiving the Intellectual Life: May Sinclair’s Workbooks
• 6 ‘Let Me Be Free of the Printers’: The Reception of Ezra Pound’s Generative Archive
• 7 Ransom-ing D. H. Lawrence: The Archive and New Trajectories in Lawrence Studies
• 8 Archive as Personal ‘Disastar’: The Malcolm Lowry Collection at the University of British Columbia and Beyond
• 9 Hart Crane’s The Bridge: Publishing a Fragmentary Whole
• 10 Samuel Beckett’s Manuscripts: A Literary Archive in the Digital Age
• 11 Curation, Collaboration and Creativity in the Archives of Virginia Woolf
• 12 Beyond Archive Fever: The Complexities of Editing Dorothy Richardson’s Oeuvre for the Twenty-First Century
• 13 The Archival In-Life of James Joyce
• 14 ‘From the Oracular Archives’: The Dylan Thomas Poetry Archive
• 15 The Text and ‘The Presence’: Gertrude Stein’s Archives
• 16 Additions and Editions: H.D. and the Archive
• Part II: Themes
• 17 Archives of the Air: The BBC Written Archives Centre and Radio Voices of the Global Anglophone
• 18 Private Presses and Commercial Concerns: The Modernist Publisher’s Archive
• 19 Fashion: Expanded Histories, New Epistemologies
• 20 Displacements and Juxtapositions
• 21 Broadcasting the Stories of Katherine Mansfield: The BBC Written Archives Centre
• 22 Modernist Autobiography, Audience and the Archives
• 23 Media Archives and Postcolonial/Decolonial Voice
• 24 Coterie Literature and the Affinities of the Archive
• 25 The Modernist Archive Gap: Black Writers and Canonicity in the Digital Era
• 26 Translation in the Global Modernist Archive
• Index
• Copyright