Cross-Channel Modernisms

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature (2022), Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (2013). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (2023) and co-editor of several volumes including Cross-Channel Modernisms (2020), Reading Literary Animals (2019) and The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018). He is Literature Subject Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography. Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Writings of Virginia Woolf, and author of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf (1998); The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006); With you in the Hebrides: Virginia Woolf and Scotland (2013); Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse (2004); and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998).

This is an extraordinary group of essays, large in scope and yet detailed in each instance.

• Introduction: ‘Cross-Channel (Transmanche) Modernisms’Claire Davison, Jane Goldman and Derek RyanInterlude: Translating Derek Ryan1. ‘On Unknowing French? Rhythm and Le Rythme on a Cross-Channel Exchange’Claire Davison 2. ‘Impressions of Translation: Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolitan Literary Crossings’Max Saunders 3. ‘Sydney Schiff and Marcel Proust: Table-talk, Tribute, Translation’Emily Eels Interlude: FashioningClaire Davison4. ‘Cross-Channel Modernisms and the Vicissitudes of a Laughing Torso: Nina Hamnett, Artist, Bohemian and Writer in London and Paris’Jane Goldman 5. ‘Jean Rhys’s comédie anglaise’Vassiliki Kolocotroni6. ‘Betray to Become: Departure in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’Naomi Toth Interlude: MediatingJane Goldman7. ‘Close Up and Cross-Channel Cinema Culture’Laura Marcus 8. ‘Debussy at the Omega Workshops’Charlotte de Mille 9. ‘Across the Other Channel: Elizabeth Bowen and Modernist Mediation’Lauren Elkin Coda: ‘"You, who cross the Channel": Virginia Woolf, Departures and the Spectro-Aesthetics of Modernism’Patrizia A. Muscogiuri