Disciplining Modernism

A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Walliss Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process.

A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Walliss Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process.

PAMELA L. CAUGHIE teaches modernism and theory at Loyola University Chicago, USA. President of the Modernist Studies Association in 2010, Caughie is author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism (1991) and Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility (1999), and editor of Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2000). She has recently contributed to The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006), The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf (2010), and the anthology, Gender in Modernism (2007).