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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Academica Press, LLC (</span><st1:City w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Bethesda</span></st1:City><span lang="EN-US">, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>; <st1:City w:st="on">Palo Alto</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>; <st1:City w:st="on">Dublin</st1:City> and <st1:City w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City>) is pleased to announce a call for e<span style="color: black;">ssays to be included in an edited collection entitled:
Origins of Dramatic Modernism in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, 1870-1914.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">The aim of the volume
is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors, and
controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre.<span style=""> </span>We are less interested in the obscure and
more concerned with the essence of the creative nexus of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place> from the end of the nineteenth century
to the beginning of the twentieth century (up to around 1914).<span style=""> </span>Contributors wishing to consider writers
after 1914 are invited to do so, but there must be a clear genealogy and
analysis of the influences on such writers, keeping in line with the spirit of
origins of the volume.<span style=""> </span>We are less
interested in essays completely focused on the –isms of the period but more
focused on particular authors (individually or grouped) through their
representative works.<span style=""> </span>Irish dramatists
who fit into the scope of the volume will be considered.<span style=""> </span>We are looking for previously unpublished
essays only, from established and beginning scholars world-wide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">We are aware that this specific
topic has been treated previously, most notably perhaps by J.L. Styan, </span><i style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Modern Drama in Theory and Practice</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> (3 volumes, 1983) and Christopher Innes, <i style="">Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century</i>
(2002)</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">. There is continued interest
in modernism, for example in the Modernist Studies Association in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> and the Centre for Modernist Studies, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Univ. of Sussex</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>; however, drama and theatre
feature only marginally in the work of these organizations. We invite
prospective authors to revisit these volumes and question the nature of early
modernism in the context of drama and theatre with renewed vigor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As a suggestion, some individual authors to
consider (even paired or grouped collectively) might include, again with
emphasis on origins and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>
as a source:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Henry Arthur Jones</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Arthur Wing Pinero</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">William Archer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Janet Achurch</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Independent Theatre</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE">J.T.Grein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="DE">George Bernard
Shaw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Incorporated Stage Society</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Court Theatre</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Oscar Wilde</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Harley Granville Barker</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">John Vedrenne</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Development in the work of </span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">John Galsworthy</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Barrie</span></st1:place></st1:City></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Yeats</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Synge</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">O’Casey</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Maugham</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Lonsdale</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Priestley</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Auden</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Isherwood</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Eliot</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We would request finished essays in MLA
style by June 2009.<span style=""> </span>We are looking for
good, clear writing on solid authors, extensive use of scholarly resources, and
polished essays around 20-25 pages in length.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Proposals (with a very brief biography) or
inquiries may be submitted either on paper format or (preferably) by e-mail
(with a clear subject line; no attachments please), by 10 June 2008 to both</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor of Drama</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:PlaceType><span lang="EN-US"> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:PlaceName></span></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Lincoln</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang="EN-US"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US"> of
Performing Arts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">LPAC</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang="EN-US"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US">, Brayford Pool</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Lincoln</span></st1:place></st1:City><span lang="EN-US"> LN6 7TS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk">dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">and<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Associate Professor of English</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st2:Sn w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">St.</span></st2:Sn><span lang="EN-US"> <st2:middlename w:st="on">Francis</st2:middlename> <st2:Sn w:st="on">College</st2:Sn></span></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">180 Remsen Street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span lang="EN-US"> – Room 6005</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Brooklyn
Heights</span></st1:City><span lang="EN-US">, <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">11201</st1:PostalCode> <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></span></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:gtague@stfranciscollege.edu">gtague@stfranciscollege.edu</a></span></p>
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