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This volume offers a lively, provocative, state-of-the-art contribution to modernism and affect theory. While the focus on canonical authors such as Joyce and Woolf will appeal to students, the volume opens up new perspectives on modernist writing by engaging with visual arts, as well as by attending to the dynamics of affect. -- Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Maud Ellamnn, University of Chicago

This volume offers a lively, provocative, state-of-the-art contribution to modernism and affect theory. While the focus on canonical authors such as Joyce and Woolf will appeal to students, the volume opens up new perspectives on modernist writing by engaging with visual arts, as well as by attending to the dynamics of affect. -- Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Maud Ellamnn, University of Chicago

"This volume offers a lively, provocative, state-of-the-art contribution to modernism and affect theory. While the focus on canonical authors such as Joyce and Woolf will appeal to students, the volume opens up new perspectives on modernist writing by engaging with visual arts, as well as by attending to the dynamics of affect.--Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English ""Maud Ellamnn, University of Chicago"" Modernism and Affect successfully stages an impressive array of thoughtprovoking encounters between modernism and affect. The collection will be of particular interest to those scholars and students of modernism who have been curious about the 'affective turn' but have yet to delve deeply into it, or for those looking for models of 'how to' read literature through an affective lens Ultimately, Modernism and Affect makes a compelling contribution, offering fresh provocation and insight into modernist studies by placing affect at the heart of modernism.--Wendy J. Truran ""Textual Practice"""

This volume offers a lively, provocative, state-of-the-art contribution to modernism and affect theory. While the focus on canonical authors such as Joyce and Woolf will appeal to students, the volume opens up new perspectives on modernist writing by engaging with visual arts, as well as by attending to the dynamics of affect. -- Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Maud Ellamnn, University of Chicago

This volume offers a lively, provocative, state-of-the-art contribution to modernism and affect theory. While the focus on canonical authors such as Joyce and Woolf will appeal to students, the volume opens up new perspectives on modernist writing by engaging with visual arts, as well as by attending to the dynamics of affect. -- Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Maud Ellamnn, University of ChicagoModernism and Affect successfully stages an impressive array of thought provoking encounters between modernism and affect. The collection will be of particular interest to those scholars and students of modernism who have been curious about the 'affective turn' but have yet to delve deeply into it, or for those looking for models of 'how to' read literature through an affective lens Ultimately, Modernism and Affect makes a compelling contribution, offering fresh provocation and insight into modernist studies by placing affect at the heart of modernism. -- Wendy J. Truran, Textual Practice

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Julie Taylor is lecturer in American Studies/Literature at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.

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