The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives - (Bloomsbury Handbooks) by Jamie Callison & Matthew Feldman & Anna Svendsen & Erik Tonning

About the Book

"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. 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"--

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"This is a real cornucopia of a volume that will rapidly become definitive... An essential resource for finding out about, and receiving informed views about, archival work on particular authors and archives in modernism." --Steven Matthews, Professor in English Literature, University of Reading, UK

About the Author

Jamie Callison is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Agder, Norway.

Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professorial Fellow at the University of York, UK.

Anna Svendsen is a researcher and university instructor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway.