The Dialogics of Modernism(s) in the New Age

Recovering Feminist Criticism: Modern Women Writers and Feminist Periodical Studies

“…3 3 My term “feminist dialogics” borrows from the work of Ann Ardis who has explored a “modernist dialogics” both in the relation of early twentieth‐century periodicals to one another and in the internal debates that characterize efforts to define modernism within the pages of a single periodical. See her essay “The Dialogics of Modernism.” …”

Literature and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

“…While Mutch discusses the Clarion ’s serialized fiction in the aforementioned article and in another essay published in Victorian Literature and Culture (2008), Ann Ardis approaches Blatchford’s paper from a modernist critical orientation in her book Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880–1922 (2002) and in two related articles, ‘The Dialogics of Modernism(s) in the New Age ’ (2007) and ‘Oscar Wilde’s Legacies to Clarion and New Age Socialist Aestheticism’ (2003). Ardis’s research puts the Clarion , unexpectedly, in dialogue with the New Age , a guild socialist periodical edited by Alfred Orage and as unlike the Clarion as one might imagine; the New Age , known as a seedbed for modernism, directs itself to the art‐minded anti‐bourgeois crowd, while the Clarion addresses an audience of working‐class socialists, especially in the North, and speaks in the language of the Victorian sporting press.…”