Anthologies in/and/of Modernism (MSA 16: 6-9 November 2014)
Given 1) the ongoing expansion of modernist studies in "temporal, spatial, and vertical" directions (Mao and Walkowitz) and 2) a renewed interest in textual materiality and modernist institutions (Jeremy Braddock's Collecting as Modernist Practice), the time would seem right for a thorough reconsideration of literary anthologies in/and/of modernism.
I am seeking papers for a panel at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Pittsburgh that will newly theorize, contextualize, and interpret anthologies as cultural artifacts. Welcome lines of inquiry include: generic and bibliographic codes of anthologies; re-thinking insurgent anthologies; the changing cultural function of anthologies; anthologies as constructing, complicating, critiquing, or destroying canons; anthologies as textual commodities; anthologies and education; anthologies as imperial gestures and/or imperial commodities.
Contact Patrick Collier at pccollier@bsu.edu by April 30, 2014.
This CFP is for a proposed panel for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Pittsburgh on November 6-9.