Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the ‘archival turn’ in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing ‘practitioner's tool...

The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation. Moder...

Abstract This book examines the importance of classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and letters of Richard Aldington (1892...

Major changes in media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries challenged traditional ideas about artistic representation and opened new avenues for authors working in the modern...

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by Édouard Vuillard wh...

George Balanchine’s arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold and original neoclassical style that is cele...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

This chapter argues that the modernist agenda, currently dominant in mainstream psychiatry, serves as a disempowering force for service users. By structuring the world of mental he...