Matthew Chambers

Matthew Chambers is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Contributions

What Are We to Do with Our Lives? The League of Nations, Open Conspiracy, and the World State

Focus on modernist institutions requires attention to modernist institutionalism as well. Whereas focus on the former involves the ways in which literary and cultural developments are conditioned and made possible by publishers, publications, organizations, and governments, focus on the latter emphasizes the forms of justification and modes of habituation that result in the shape and functioning of such institutions.