Book News: Limited-time sale on Woolf scholarly books

The University Press of Florida is offering a special sale--and free shipping--on three scholarly works by Barbara Lounsberry listed below now through 2/2/21.

Becoming Virginia Woolf

Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

BARBARA  LOUNSBERRY

272 pp. | 6 x 9 | Paper $24.95 $18.00

“This vital study inspires one to reread Woolf’s diaries with special attention to outside influences that helped shape her writing.” —Choice

“Lounsberry ultimately helps us see, through her close attention to what she calls the first three phases in Woolf’s diary-keeping, how the Virginia Woolf we know actually became that writer. This book is foundational, one the rest of us will depend on for a long time.” —Woolf Studies Annual

Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path
Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read

BARBARA  LOUNSBERRY

280 pp. | 6 x 9 | Paper $24.95 $18.00

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“Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this volume is a love letter for all scholars of Woolf and modernism, and for neophytes interested in the aegis of Woolf’s distinctive style. . . . Essential.”—Choice

“Lounsberry’s years of meditation on her material can be felt. . . . In the passionate diary reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf.” —Times Literary Supplement

Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within
Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read

BARBARA  LOUNSBERRY

408 pp. | 6 x 9 | Paper $24.95 $18.00

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“Essential.”—Choice

“Barbara Lounsberry has done for Woolf’s diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf’s novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it.”—New Republic

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Book News: Dublin's post-independence theatre scene

 

Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940

BY RUUD VAN DEN BEUKEN 

Syracuse UP, January 2021

Paper ISBN: 9780815636434

Hardcover ISBN: 9780815636250

https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/3470/avant-garde-nationalism-at-the-dublin-gate-theatre-1928-1940/

A new generation of Irish playwrights set out to establish Dublin as a modern European capital by staging radical productions at the Dublin Gate Theatre.

BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do not constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.

In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in a uniquely avant-garde setting. While the Gate’s lasting importance to the history of Irish theater is generally attributed to its introduction of experimental foreign drama to Ireland, Van den Beuken shines a light on the Gate’s productions of several new Irish playwrights, such as Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, David Sears, Robert Collis, and Edward and Christine Longford. Having grown up during an era of political turmoil and bloodshed that led to the creation of an independent yet in many ways bitterly divided Ireland, these dramatists chose to align themselves with an avant-garde theater that explicitly sought to establish Dublin as a modern European capital. In examining an extensive corpus of archival resources, Van den Beuken reveals how the Gate Theatre became a site of avant-garde nationalism during Ireland’s tumultuous first post-independence decades.

"Offers an invaluable tool for advancing knowledge in the fields of drama, performance, and Irish studies with its close attention to the underexamined institution of the Gate Theatre. . . . This book will make a significant and long-lasting impact in Irish studies, theatre studies, and accounts of mid-century modernism."  —Paige Reynolds, author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle

"For many years, the accepted story of Irish theatre was that the Abbey was the writers’ theatre, and its rival, the Gate, was primarily a producing house. Making use of newly available archival sources, Ruud van den Beuken turns the old story on its head, and in so doing forces us to rethink Irish theatre. This book demands our attention."  —Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin

Ruud van den Beuken is assistant professor of English literature at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He was awarded the 2015 Irish Society for Theatre Research New Scholars’ Prize.

Becoming Laura: A Closer Look at JML 44.1

 Take a closer look at JML 44.1. 

Author John S. Bak shares some background into his fascinating archival study of a previously unpublished Tennessee Williams introduction to the play he co-wrote with Donald Windham, You Touched Me! Read it HERE.

Bak’s essay, “Tennessee Williams’s ‘“Homage to Ophelia” (A Pretentious Foreword)’ with Commentary,” is a read-for-free feature on JSTOR. 

JML 44.1 (Fall 2020) is LIVE!

 

JML 44.1 (Fall 2020) on the theme "Genealogies and Historiographies" is now live on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.issue-1 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43684

Contents include:

Genealogies of the Modern

Michael Bedsole

Exteriority and Interiority in T.S. Eliot’s Graduate Work  

Ignasi Ribó 

“At the farthest pole from man”: Kafka’s Posthuman Outlook on War 

John S. Bak

Tennessee Williams’s “Homage to Ophelia (A Pretentious Foreword)” with Commentary

Joseph Darlington

Anthony Burgess and William S. Burroughs: Shared Enemies, Opposed Friends

Kevin McGuirk

“[T]he apple an apple”: Ammons, Bloom, and “the ten thousand things” – with Emerson and Lao Tzu 

Dream Historiographies

Clare Udras Ellis

Pursued by Time: The Chronolibidinal Aesthetics of Katherine Mansfield 

Annaliese Hoehling

Seeing History in the Baroque Ruins of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September: An Indictment of Cosmopolitan Modernity

Liran Razinsky

Psychoanalysis and Autobiography: Leiris, Freud and the Obstacle to Self-Knowledge 

Jesse Zuba

Raymond Carver and the Modern Career Imaginary

Bram Mertens

Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) 

Reviews

Elizabeth Scheer

Surveying the Damage: Marina MacKay’s Modernism, War, and Violence

Robert L. Caserio

Audacious Reconciliation

Farisa Khalid

Good, Brave Causes: British Fiction of the 1950s