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Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media

Edited by Dean Irvine, Vanessa Lent, Bart Vautour

© 2017

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.

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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.

Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media

Edited by Dean Irvine, Vanessa Lent, Bart Vautour

© 2017

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.

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  • World Rights
  • Page Count: 416 pages
  • Dimensions: 6.0in x 0.0in x 9.0in

  • Reviews

    "This collection of essays serves as an important resource for any digital humanities scholar, especially those pondering how to digitally represent an author’s archive…"


    Anne Sajecki, University of Alberta
    Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol 56 no 1-2

    "Making Canada New is an extremely useful resource for students and scholars of humanities computing, and Canadian literature and culture. All the papers in this collection are of the highest calibre."


    Cecily Devereux, Department of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta

    "This volume brings together highly polished and intelligent essays on the subject of editing, the digital, and Canadian modernist writers. Making Canada New makes a significant contribution to the field and will be of great interest to specialists of Canadian literature and Canadian studies."


    Linda Morra, Department of English, Bishop’s University

  • Author Information

    Dean Irvine is the founder and director of Agile Humanities Agency. He is the director of Editing Modernism in Canada, general editor of the Canadian Literature Collection and is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.


    Vanessa Lent holds a PhD in English from Dalhousie University and is an Instructional Assistant at the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia.


    Bart Vautour is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He co-directs the “Canada and the Spanish Civil War” project (spanishcivilwar.ca)

  • Table of 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

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