Making Canada New

"Making Canada New is an extremely useful resource for students and scholars of humanities computing, and Canadian literature and culture. All the papers in this collection are of the highest calibre." -- Cecily Devereux, Department of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta "This volume brings together highly polished and intelligent essays on the subject of editing, the digital, and Canadian modernist writers. Making Canada New makes a significant contribution to the field and will be of great interest to specialists of Canadian literature and Canadian studies." -- Linda Morra, Department of English, Bishop's University

An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media, collaborative labour, emergent scholars and scholarships, and digital modernisms.

An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media, collaborative labour, emergent scholars and scholarships, and digital modernisms. In doing so, the collection reveals that renovating modernisms does not need to depend on the fabrication of completely new modes of scholarship. Rather, it is the repurposing of already existing practices and combining them with others – whether old or new, print or digital – that instigates a process of continuous renewal. Critical to this process of renewal is the intermingling of print and digital research methods and the coordination of more popular modes of literary scholarship with less frequented ones, such as bibliography, textual studies, and editing. Making Canada New tracks the editorial renovation of modernism as a digital phenomenon while speaking to the continued production of print editions.