FRONTS OF MODERNITY
The 20th Century Collections at the University of Victoria Libraries
Edited by Matthew J. Huculak
2016
ISBN 9781550585414 (paperback), 9781550585421 (PDF)
140 pages
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This publication is a richly collaborative work that celebrates the diversity of UVic Libraries’ twentieth-century collections with a wide range of articles by distinguished scholars of twentieth-century literature. Each essay highlights a particular feature of these rare holdings, which include material from Djuna Barnes, Lawrence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, and Ezra Pound.
Subjects: modernism, English literature, University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections, John Matthew Huculak.
Editor J. Matthew Huculak is Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Scholarship at the University of Victoria Libraries. His research interests include modernism, book history, and digital humanities. His most recent work, “Reading Forensically: Modernist Paper, Newfoundland, and Transatlantic Materiality,” has just been published in the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies.
FRONTS OF MODERNITY: The 20th Century Collections at the University of Victoria Libraries
Setting the Path | Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, UVic Libraries
Re:Defining Modernism | Heather Dean, Associate Director, Special Collections, UVic Libraries
The 20th-Century Collections | J. Matthew Huculak
Letter from Canada | Nicholas Bradley, G. Kim Blank, J. Matthew Huculak
Letter from Ireland | J. Matthew Huculak
Letter from France | J. Matthew Huculak
Letter from Egypt | James Gifford
Letter from England | Matthew S. Adams, J. Matthew Huculak, Elzabeth Grove-White, Stephen Ross, Christine Walde
Letter from America | Michael, J. Matthew Huculak
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