Call for essays
Academica Press, LLC (Bethesda, MD; Palo Alto, CA; Dublin and Oxford) is pleased to announce a call for essays to be included in an edited collection entitled: Origins of Literary Modernism in England.
The aim of the volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors, and controversial themes as they emerged in both poetry and prose. We are less interested in the obscure and the Irish literary revival and more concerned with the essence of the creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century (up to around 1911). We are less interested in essays completely focused on the –isms of the period but more focused on particular authors (individually or grouped) through their representative works. We are looking for previously unpublished essays only, from established and beginning scholars world-wide.
The aim of the volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors, and controversial themes as they emerged in both poetry and prose. We are less interested in the obscure and the Irish literary revival and more concerned with the essence of the creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century (up to around 1911). We are less interested in essays completely focused on the –isms of the period but more focused on particular authors (individually or grouped) through their representative works. We are looking for previously unpublished essays only, from established and beginning scholars world-wide.
We are aware that this specific topic has been treated previously; so, to name a few: P.N. Furbank et al., Modernism and Its Origins (1975); Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism (1984); Sanford Schwartz, The Matrix of Modernism (1985); Sydney Kaplan, Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction (1991); Stan Smith, The Origins of Modernism (1994); Brendan Wallace, The Origins of British Modernism (1998); and of course some more comprehensive collections, notably Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane’s, Modernism (1976; 1991). In fact, precisely because of the continued interest in modernism (Modernist Studies Association in America and the Centre for Modernist Studies, Univ. of Sussex), we invite prospective authors to revisit these volumes and question the nature of early modernism with renewed vigor.
As a suggestion, some individual authors to consider (even paired or grouped collectively) might include (listed here alphabetically), again with emphasis on origins and London as a source:
A. Bennett
F.H. Bradley
J. Conrad
H. Doolittle (HD)
T.S. Eliot
F.S. Flint
F.M. Ford
E.M. Forster
T. Hardy
T.E. Hulme
H. James
J. Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
W. Lewis
K. Mansfield
G.E. Moore
J.M. Murry
W. Pater
E. Pound
L. Strachey
E. Thomas
H.G Wells
O. Wilde
V. Woolf
W.B. Yeats
We would request finished essays in MLA style by June 2008. We are looking for good, clear writing on solid authors, extensive use of scholarly resources, and polished essays around 20-25 pages in length.
Proposals (with a very brief biography) or inquiries may be submitted either on paper format or (preferably) by e-mail (with a clear subject line; no attachments please) to:
Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street – Room 6005
Brooklyn Heights, New York 11201 USA
gtague *at* stfranciscollege *dot* edu
As a suggestion, some individual authors to consider (even paired or grouped collectively) might include (listed here alphabetically), again with emphasis on origins and London as a source:
A. Bennett
F.H. Bradley
J. Conrad
H. Doolittle (HD)
T.S. Eliot
F.S. Flint
F.M. Ford
E.M. Forster
T. Hardy
T.E. Hulme
H. James
J. Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
W. Lewis
K. Mansfield
G.E. Moore
J.M. Murry
W. Pater
E. Pound
L. Strachey
E. Thomas
H.G Wells
O. Wilde
V. Woolf
W.B. Yeats
We would request finished essays in MLA style by June 2008. We are looking for good, clear writing on solid authors, extensive use of scholarly resources, and polished essays around 20-25 pages in length.
Proposals (with a very brief biography) or inquiries may be submitted either on paper format or (preferably) by e-mail (with a clear subject line; no attachments please) to:
Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street – Room 6005
Brooklyn Heights, New York 11201 USA
gtague *at* stfranciscollege *dot* edu