The Modernist Journals Project, a collaboration between Brown University and the University of Tulsa, serves as a digital archive for literary magazines, “little magazines,” and assorted periodicals vital to the shaping of modernism. Those interested in modernist women writers will find a treasure trove of material, such as magazines focused on feminism, like The Freewoman, and magazines featuring the writing and editing of prominent women like Katherine Mansfield and Harriet Monro.
Category Archives: Digital Collections
Resource: The Modernism Lab
The Modernism Lab is a virtual space at Yale University dedicated to collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism. The lab seeks, by a process of shared investigation, to describe the emergence of modernism out of a background of social, political, and existential ferment. The project covers the period 1914-1926, from the outbreak of the first world war to the full-blown emergence of English modernism. The Lab has supported undergraduate classes on Modern Poetry, the Modern British Novel, Modernist London, and Joyce’s Ulysses, and a graduate course in English and Comparative Literature, “Moderns, 1914-1926,” as well as a class on modern German literature at the University of Notre Dame. Students in the classes have contributed materials to the website and used it as the platform for their research. The main components of the website are an innovative research tool, YNote, containing information on the activities of 24 leading modernist writers during this crucial period and a wiki consisting of brief interpretive essays on literary works and movements of the period.
The project as a whole aims to reconstitute the social and intellectual webs that linked these writers—correspondence, personal acquaintance, reading habits—and their influence on the major works of the period. We are interested, too, in broadening the canon of works studied in the period by paying attention to minor works by major authors, major works by minor authors, and works that may have been influential in their time but that are no longer much read.
Resource: The Pedagogy Toolkit
The Pedagogy Toolkit, housed at the University of Victoria, offers a variety of resources for teaching writing and literature in all areas. Syllabi on the teaching of modernist literature are featured.
Resource: The Orlando Project
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a substantial online resource from Cambridge UP; the scholarly introduction provides a conceptual overview useful for situating the teaching of modernist women writers within the context of recovery work.