The Editors
Contributions
1450–1950: The Gutenberg Galaxy According to Bob Brown
Ross Hair
Out of This Nettle: T. S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding III” and the Environment of What Grows
LeeAnn Derdeyn
The Pure and the Dirty: Censorship, Obscenity, and the Modern Bookshop
Andrew Thacker
“Rolls Rough”: William Carlos Williams on the Thrills and Ills of Automobility
Joel Duncan
“Tempus Tacendi”: The Late Silence of Ezra Pound
Sean Mark
The Language of Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Egyptology, and Literary Culture
Eleanor Dobson
“The Beautiful Future”: Harold Monro, F. T. Marinetti, and Early Modernist Poetry in England
Robyn Jakeman
Edward Krasiński’s “Overhead Sculptures”: A Manifestation of Modernity
Elżbieta Błotnicka-Mazur
Happy New Year! COVID time being what it is, we get to celebrate the beginning of a new school year (the September 2022 issue, 29.3) and the beginning of a new calendar year (2023) simultaneously. We editors are crawling ourselves out of our pandemic delays, determined to gradually bring the issue date and the calendar back into sync.
Greetings! This editor’s note marks the publication of a new print issue of Modernism/modernity and thus a new cycle here on Print+. Issue 29.2 is—or soon will be—in your mailboxes and it’s another exciting collection of the best of modernist studies today.
Global Autofictional Flânerie
Shaj Mathew
Eccentric Primitivism: The World of Jan “Eskimo” Welzl
Václav Lucien Paris
“An Eternal Dance”: Paul Claudel, Japan, and Thermodynamics
Ryan Johnson
Unpacking the MoMA Myth: Modernism under Revision
Sandra Zalman
Dancing Returns: Recovering Modernism’s Movements
Michelle Clayton
Hart Crane: The “Architectural Art”
Jo Gill
Developing a Lyric Carapace: Urban Mood, Rebellious Banality, and George Oppen’s Obscured Modernism
David Hobbs
Freedom on Trial: Kafka’s Modernist Tragedy
Jensen Suther
Almost Winning: Speculation, Temporality, and Casino Capitalism in Chekhov
Alisa Zhulina
Homme-Insecte: Form, Typus, Fetish
Fabienne Collignon
Sylvia Plath's Aerial Poetics
Jeremy Lowenthal
Don't Ask, Won't Tell? Sexual Science and the Case Biography of Sodomy in Colonial India
Robel Sequeira
The Adventure of Technology: Kipling, the Motorcar, and National Regeneration
Eva Chen
REVIEW ESSAY
The Color of Modernism
Gabriel Hankins
GALLERY REVIEW
“Consider a shoulder”: Leaning on Collaboration in Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time
Jennifer J. Smith
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert A. Davidson
The Hotel: Occupied Space
Randi Saloman
Eurie Dahn
Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures
Brooks E. Hefner
Mary Jean Corbett
Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts
Sarah Parker
Alexandra Kieffer
Debussy’s Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism
Cristina L. Ruotolo
Chris Forster
Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity
Allison Pease
Douglas Mao
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Greg Forter
Jaipreet Virdi
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Kim Adams
Postcolonial Modernism and the Camera Eye: Eliot Elisofon’s Photographs of African Art
Emily Hyde
Suspended Affect and Harlem Renaissance Poetics
Sean Weidman
A Savage Corpse: Colonialism, Anticolonialism, and the Hebrew Modernist Avant Garde
Hana Morgenstern
Identity’s Elsewhere: White Queer Diasporic Feeling in Willa Cather’s Fiction
Eric Newman
Willa Cather’s Queer Economy
Joseph Dimuro
Love in the Flesh: Virginia Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Other Amorous Victorians
Andrea Zemgulys
Meter and Modernist Prose: Verse Fragments in Woolf’s The Years
Chris Townsend
Langston Hughes, Blues Poetry, and the Distance between Poems and Songs
Florian Gargaillo
A Forum for capsule review of recent books of interest to our readers.
If you would like to write a capsule review (250-300 words) of one of the books featured in the Books of Interest section of our more recent print issues, we would welcome your submission at mmlittlereviews@gmail.com. Please include the issue number in which the book is listed in your correspondence.
Towards an Oceanian Modernism
Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long
Sacred Space, Secular Time: Sundown and the Indigenous Modernism of John Joseph Mathews
Alexander Steele
Aztec Cubists Between Paris and New York: Diego Rivera, Marius de Zayas and the Reception of Mexican Antiquities in the 1910s
Laura Moure Cecchini
The Present, the Modern, and Modernization: Reexamining Latin American Modernity in the Writing of Alberto Cruz
Maxwell Woods
Reverse Imperial Ethnography and C. L. R. James's London Writing
Elizabeth Evans
Garden Work: Prosaic Alightments Among Modern Ecology and "Kew Gardens"
Katherine Greulich
Olive Moore, Queer Ecology and Anthropocene Modernism
David Shackleton
REVIEW ESSAY
Recovery Work: Nathaniel Kahn’s The Price of Everything and Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women
John Paul Rollert
BOOK REVIEWS
Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature
Laura Helton
Maria Taroutina
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Sarah Warren
Aaron Jaffe
Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide
Guy Stevenson
Julie Beth Napolin
The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein
Greg Chase
Olga Solovieva
Christ's Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics
Charles Lock
Bruce Peter
Jet Age Hotels and the International Style 1950–1965
Faye Hammill
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination
Janet Badia
RECENT BOOKS OF INTEREST
I’m very pleased to announce that in January Print Plus received the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ inaugural Best Digital Feature award. The citation praised the platform as “a model to which print scholarly journals with a digital component might aspire,” specifically referencing the variety of forums and our “breathtaking array of content.” This is the second major award for the platform since Debra Rae Cohen launched it in 2016. A lot of editorial blood, sweat, and, well, maybe a tear or two, have gone into it, but of course the reason readers keep coming back is the content.
A forum for reviews of recent publications and important books we may have missed the first time around. It also includes "Race in the Modernism/modernity Archives: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond."
Introduction: Anarchism and the Hermeneutics of Faith
Roger Rothman, guest editor
Creative Nothingness: Dada as Art, Politics, and Religion in Interwar Japan
James Mark Shields
Ananda Coomaraswamy: Anarchizing Performance, East and West
Kimberly Croswell
Clyfford Still on the Margins of Anarchy
Allan Antliff
Pacifism, Realism, and Pathology: Alex Comfort, Cecil Collins, and Neo-Romantic Art during World War II
Mark Antliff
Goblin Modernism: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic
James Gifford
“The World’s Heavy Gaze”: Cin-aereality in the Postwar Avant-Gardes
Paula Amad
Exceeding Modernism: Romantic Artists in the Twentieth Century
Paul Cuff
Lateness and the Politics of Filmic Excess
Matthew Noble-Olson
Ink Splashes on Camera: Calligraphy, Action Painting, and Mass Media in Postwar Japan
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
SPECIAL SECTION: DUCHAMP
“Cinematic Blossoming”: Duchamp, Chess, and Infraqueer Mating
Christophe Wall-Romana
Original Nonsense: James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, and Modernism’s Genius
Robert S. Lehman
Duchamp Culture/Cunningham Dance
Carrie Noland
A Desire for the Readymade: Duchamp’s Emergency in Favor of Twice
Julia Robinson
REVIEW ESSAY
Feasts and Fasts: Towards a Modernist Food Studies
Rebecca Bowler
BOOK REVIEWS
Sam Rose
Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism
Patrick Fessenbecker
Anne Jamison
Kafka’s Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic
Veronika Tuckerova
Leonard Diepeveen
Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Nicholas Brown
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism
Lisa Siraganian
David Lloyd
Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre
Andrew Kincaid
Christopher A. Snyder
Gatsby’s Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain, 1904–1929
Kevin J. Hayes
Jacob Edmond
Make it the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media
Anatoly Detwyler
Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng, ed.
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism
Valérie Bénéjam
RECENT BOOKS OF INTEREST
How to Do Things with Futurism: Traces of Futurism in Hebrew
Nana Ariel
“Talking Hebrew in every language under the sun”: Emma Lazarus, Charles Reznikoff, and the Origins of Documentary Poetics
Joshua Wall
Subject to a Vital Machine: The Political Ambivalence of Avant-garde Aesthetics
Christopher Williams-Wynn
The Noise of Mediation: Dorothy Richardson’s Sonic Modernity
Adam Guy
Erika Mann, the BBC German Service, and Foreign-Language Broadcasting during WWII
Vike Martina Plock
Pound Notes in German Markets: Paul Celan, Usury, and the Postwar Currency of Ezra Pound
Philip Gerard
Limitless Museum: P. M. Bardi’s Aesthetic Reeducation
Adrian Anagnost
Character Defects: The Racialized Addict and Nella Larsen’s Passing
Lisa Mendelman
“The Congo is flooding the Acropolis”: Art, “Exhibits,” and the Intercultural in the New Negro Renaissance
Rachel Farebrother
Anachronistic Life: Racial Vitalism and ‘Unhistorical’ Temporality in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem
Jennifer F. Wang
Vegetating Life and the Spirit of Modernism in Kafka and Beckett
Joseph Anderton
Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Kafka’s Modernist Prose
Sonja Boos