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The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.... (more about the MJP)

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News & Updates

The RMS Titanic in MJP Journals (4/12)
To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Jonathan Tinnin and Mattew Kochis (both from the University of Tulsa) have assembled this short piece that brings together many of the references to the tragedy that appeared in MJP journals, from April 1912 through June 1920.
The MJP Wins NEH Grant (3/12)
The Modernist Journals Project has been awarded a two-year grant of $270,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize substantial runs of five American journals: McClure's (1901-1910), The Smart Set (1913-1922), The Masses (1911-1917), Camera Work (1903-1917), and The Seven Arts (1916-1917). The grant will be administered by the University of Tulsa, and the work will be done at both Brown and Tulsa.
Imagist Anthologies Now Online (3/12)
In 1914, Ezra Pound put Imagism on the map by publishing Des Imagistes: An Anthology. Three more Imagist anthologies followed, edited by H. D. & Richard Aldington (in 1915) and by Amy Lowell (in 1916 & 1917). All four anthologies, including three versions of Pound's Des Imagistes, can now be found here.
The MJP Adds a British Journal from the Late Nineteenth Century (2/12)
The Dome, published in London between March 1897 and May 1898, is a quarterly that proudly claims to contain "examples of all the arts" in each issue. You can find all five issues from the first series of the magazine here.
Latest Developments at the MJP Lab (2/12)
We've now uploaded to our Sourceforge repository the MJP's catalogue records and text transcript files for three more journals: The Crisis, Blast, and The Tyro. We're also making available there three plain-text datasets for each of the nine journals now represented on the site (Blast, Crisis, Freewoman, New Freewoman, Egoist, Little Review, Others, Poetry, and Tyro). These datasets make it easy to access the MJP's catalogue information about these journals. Click here for more information about the datasets, and here about how to use them.