Full Description
An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media, collaborative labour, emergent scholars and scholarships, and digital modernisms. In doing so, the collection reveals that renovating modernisms does not need to depend on the fabrication of completely new modes of scholarship. Rather, it is the repurposing of already existing practices and combining them with others - whether old or new, print or digital - that instigates a process of continuous renewal. Critical to this process of renewal is the intermingling of print and digital research methods and the coordination of more popular modes of literary scholarship with less frequented ones, such as bibliography, textual studies, and editing. Making Canada New tracks the editorial renovation of modernism as a digital phenomenon while speaking to the continued production of print editions.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Dean Irvine, Vanessa Lent, and Bart Vautour
Introduction
1. Libraries, Archives, Databases, Edition
Sean Latham
Unpacking My Digital Library: Programs, Modernisms, Magazines
Marc André Fortin
Archival Problems, Future Possibilities: Reconceptualizing the Digital Database in Canada
Melissa Dalgleish
Editing Modules, Collecting Editions: The Present and Future of Small-Scale Digital Critical Editions
Sophie Marcotte
New Perspectives on Gabrielle Roy's Manuscripts and Unpublished Texts
J.A. Weingarten
Reading the Personal Library, Rereading F.R. Scott
2. Collaborations
Tanya E. Clement
BaronessElsa: An Autobiographical Manifesto
Paul Hjartarson, Harvey Quamen, Kristin Fast, and EMiC UA
Editing the Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson Archives: Scholarly Editions ⇔ Digital Projects
Patrick A. McCarthy and Chris Ackerley
Annotating Malcolm Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea
Michael John DiSanto
Editing a Legend: George Whalley
Andrea Hasenbank and EMiC UA
Canadian Manifestos: Between Poetics and Polemics
3. Selective Traditions and Alternative Modernisms
Peter Webb
Selecting Modernist Poetry in Canada: Readers' Editions and Editorial Practice
Gregory Betts
When Out in Front Gets Left Behind: Sol Allen's They Have Bodies and Canada's Archived Avant Garde
Kailin Wright
Bringing the Text to Life: Editing The God of Gods
Tony Tremblay
Landscapes of Reception: Historicizing the Travails of the New Brunswick Literary Modernists
Colin Hill
Modernism, Antimodernism, and Hugh MacLennan's Novels of the 1930s
Works Cited
