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)
News & Updates
- The MJP Receives NEH Grant to Digitize New Journals
- The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded us a grant to create digital editions of the following periodicals: The Crisis from 1910 to 1922 (organ of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois, editor), The Little Review from 1914 to 1922 (Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors), The Freewoman/New Freewoman/Egoist (1911-1919, Dora Marsden and Harriet Weaver, editors), and Others: A Magazine of the New Verse (1915-1919, Alfred Kreymborg, editor). This work will officially begin at Brown and Tulsa on July 1st, 2010.
- An Introduction to Poetry
- David Ben-Merre's introduction to Poetry magazine, "There must be great audiences too"—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, is now available on the MJP website. (If you encounter difficulty displaying this essay in a Firefox browser on a PC, please try upgrading to Firefox version 3.6.) For ideas about assignments using Poetry magazine, please follow this link.
- MJP Improvements
- In addition to adding new material, we try to make regular improvements to the functioning of the site. Currently we have restored functionality to all the links to biographies of artists and writers in our digital text of The New Age. If you notice things that need improvement please notify us at : MJP_Project_Manager@brown.edu
