Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

Attempting to confine interdisciplinary and global modernisms into a single reference work is a daunting effort, one that general editor Stephen Ross (2015), President of the Modernist Studies Association, has taken on with enthusiasm along with the handbook The Modernist World, which appears to serve as a companion volume in theme and even content. Eight of the articles in the latter appear in the former, for example, Irene Gammel and Cathy Waszczuk’s chapter “A Rare Moment of Crisis”: Modernist Intellectual Currents in Europe, is reprinted verbatim as “Modernism in Europe”. Over 1,500 academics, a number of...