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A teaser from our latest print issue: evisits Conrad’s 1901 novella as a striking parable for an age of climate catastrophe in his essay “Environmental Trauma and the White Supremacist Imaginary in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon."
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New on Print Plus: The Editor's Note from the September issue of Modernism/modernity.
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Read “Peripheral Modernisms,” the latest cluster on Print Plus, edited by Pavel Andrade, which revisits the category of the periphery to ask how modernist forms register the uneven structures of capitalism, empire, and cultural power: modernismmodernity.org/perip…
Attention: Call for Co-editor of Modernism/modernity
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The latest installment of the "Letters from the Field" by Caroline Hovanec and Anne Raine continues to ask how we study modernism in an era of climate crisis, ecological loss, and ongoing catastrophe?
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Genre fiction as modernist fiction? Indeed. My article "Market Texture: The Art of Genre Fiction" is out now in a great new issue of @MModernity. Readings of Wells and Conrad—and a glimpse of the modernism of our present...
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Critics panned Whistler's "Nocturne in Black and Gold" but his vibrant fireworks depicted important innovations in the pyrotechnical arts
Read Laura Anne Kalba's "Fireworks and Other Profane Illuminations" in @MModernity, free thru 31 July:
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ALT “The bright and varied colors with which we have come to closely associate firework shows were developments that only fully transpired during Whistler’s lifetime, thanks in particular to the efforts of a coterie of innovative pyrotechnicians predominantly working across the Channel in France.” Fireworks and Other Profane Illuminations: Color and the Experience of Wonder in Modern Visual Culture Laura Anne Kalba Modernism/modernity Volume 19, Number 4, November 2012 Read free at Project MUSE thru 31 July Illustrated with James McNeill Whistler's painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold'
How do photographs shape what we rememberand what they erase?
Beeta Baghoolizadeh reflects on photography, visuality, and the histories of Black enslavement explored in The Color Black.
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In "Conservatism as Modernism: The Aesthetics of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In Praise of Shadows in Global Context," Brian Hurley offers a fresh reading of Tanizaki's celebrated work.
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From our latest print issue: Virginia Jackson's review of Kimberly Quiogue Andrews’s The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University: modernismmodernity.org/forum…
We're delighted to celebrate the open-access publication of Ocean Liners and Modern Literature by our editor, Faye Hammill.
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A new issue of Modernism/modernity is on its way!
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How does modernist elegy create spaces for collective grief, dissent, and remembrance?
Featuring essays that engage poetry, memory, affect, and the politics of loss, explore our cluster on "Modernist Elegy and Grief's Counterpublics" here: modernismmodernity.org/forum…
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Mantra Mukim (University of Oxford) as incoming Book Reviews Editor from Sept 1, 2026.
We thank Dr Stefanie Sobelle & Dr Martin Harries for their dedicated work as Book Reviews Editors over the past three years.
In her review essay, “Paper Processors and Poetry’s Data,” Emily Christina Murphy offers a compelling double review that rethinks how poetry circulates through systems of inscription, computation, and mediation.
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New on Print Plus: Robert Spoo's article "The Dispossessing of Sylvia Beach: Property, Autonomy, Personhood" which revisits the life and legacy of Sylvia Beach to consider the entanglements that shape women’s lives and labor.
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New on Print Plus: check out Anjali Nerlekar's Editor's Note introducing the latest Print Issue of Modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/edito…
In Vincent Hiscock’s new article on Print Plus, “Mystic Realism & Collage: Robert Duncan’s THE WAR (1968)”, explores how poetry, collage, and political imagination converge in Robert Duncan’s response to the Vietnam War.
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In the latest post on the "Orientations" blog on Print Plus, Laura Hartmann-Villalta writes on "Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library."
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New on Print Plus: Allan Hepburn reviews Rachel Bryan’s Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War, examining how literary form registers the lingering afterlives of conflict.
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