The New Wallace Stevens Studies

Bart Eeckhout is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp. He has edited The Wallace Stevens Journal since 2011 and authored Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002). His edited books include Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic (2008), Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (2012), and Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens (2017). Gül Bilge Han is a lecturer at the Department of English, Mälardalen University. Her research lies at the intersection of modernist studies, world literature, aesthetic theory, and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy (Cambridge, 2019) and several essays on modernist aesthetics and poetry.

• Introduction: that which is always beginning Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han; Part I. Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism: 1. Imperialism and colonialism Lisa Siraganian; 2. The politics of utopia Douglas Mao; 3. Community and audience Christopher Spaide; 4. Secularism Matthew Mutter; 5. Transnationalism Gül Bilge Han; Part II. Recent Critical Methods Applied to Stevens: 6. World literature Lee M. Jenkins; 7. Ecological poetics Cary Wolfe; 8. Urban studies Julia E. Daniel; 9. Queer studies Bart Eeckhout; 10. Intersectional studies Lisa M. Steinman; 11. Cognitive literary studies G. Gabrielle Starr; Part III. Revisionary Readings of Stevens: 12. Poetic responses Andrew Epstein; 13. Poetic fiction Lisa Goldfarb; 14. Poetic thinking Charles Altieri; 15. Constructive disorderings Tom Eyers; 16. Manner and manners Zachary Finch; 17. Lyrical ethics Johanna Skibsrud.

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