CFP Dramatic Modernism

[Dr Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe]

Academica Press, LLC (Bethesda, MD; Palo Alto, CA; Dublin and Oxford) is pleased to announce a call for essays to be included in an edited collection entitled:
Origins of Dramatic Modernism in England, 1870-1914.
 
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.  We are less interested in the obscure and
more concerned with the essence of the creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century
to the beginning of the twentieth century (up to around 1914).  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.  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.  Irish dramatists
who fit into the scope of the volume will be considered.  We are looking for previously unpublished
essays only, from established and beginning scholars world-wide.
 
We are aware that this specific
topic has been treated previously, most notably perhaps by J.L. Styan, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice(3 volumes, 1983) and Christopher Innes, Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century (2002). There is continued interest
in modernism, for example in the Modernist Studies Association in America and the Centre for Modernist Studies, Univ. of Sussex, UK; 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.
 
As a suggestion, some individual authors to
consider (even paired or grouped collectively) might include, again with
emphasis on origins and London as a source:
 
Henry Arthur Jones
Arthur Wing Pinero
William Archer
Janet Achurch
The Independent Theatre
J.T.Grein
George Bernard
Shaw
The Incorporated Stage Society
The Court Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Harley Granville Barker
John Vedrenne
Development in the work of 
·        John Galsworthy
·        Barrie
·        Yeats
·        Synge
·        O’Casey
·        Maugham
·        Lonsdale
·        Priestley
·        Auden
·        Isherwood
·        Eliot
 
 
We would request finished essays in MLA
style by June 2009.  We are looking for
good, clear writing on solid authors, extensive use of scholarly resources, and
polished essays around 20-25 pages in length.
 
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
 
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Ph.D.
Professor of Drama
Universityof Lincoln
LincolnSchoolof
Performing Arts
LPACBuilding, Brayford Pool
LincolnLN6 7TS
UK
dmeyerdinkgrafe at lincoln.ac.uk
 
and
 
Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
St.Francis College
180 Remsen Street– Room 6005
Brooklyn Heights, New York 11201 USA
gtague at stfranciscollege.edu
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