Conference days are long. And full. And draining. But on the afternoon of day two of the 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, one plenary session — a roundtable featuring five scholars — perked up the crowd.
It was the session introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), a new digital project that currently focuses on the Hogarth Press but plans to include more newly digitized material and information connected with additional publishers as time goes on.
“This is the first time in a long time I’ve wanted to be 22 again,” said Beth Rigel Daugherty of Otterbein University. “Last night [at the Hogarth Press 100th birthday celebration] there was this very strong sense of the past. And this project is moving toward the future.”
Visitors can navigate the site several different ways to locate works, authors, and publishers in which they are interested. They can read synopses of the work, brief bios of the authors, and download high-res images of the book covers. Images can be used under a Creative Commons license.
MAPP is a collaborative project among six scholars and their students and research assistants from several countries. It was spearheaded by Elizabeth Willson Gordon, The King’s University of Edmonton, Canada; Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Alice Staveley, Stanford University; Helen Southworth, University of Oregon; Michael Widner, Stanford University; Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, Reading, England.
The group will be recruiting students to serve as research assistants to write additional book synopses and literary biographies. The site will eventually include pedagogical resources, including lists of syllabi and assignments using the digital resources available on MAPP.
The new Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) now available online.
Claire Battershill of Simon Fraser University led conference participants through the MAPP website.
Roundtable participants sit below a screen showing a digitized ledger sheet from the Hogarth Press.
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This was one of several points in during the conference during which the emotion and excitement of the moment (both my own and those of others) were palpable.
Beth’s comment particularly struck me because (apart from the fact that I do indeed happen to be 22) so many times during the conference I felt very privileged not only to be working on Woolf at a moment when so much is happening in the field, but also to be working in a scholarly community whose dedication and passion is matched by their incredible warmth and generosity.
The conference this year not only illuminated the pasts which are the objects of our studies in new way, but also, I think, has left a lot of us very excited for the future.
Is this the same site that has maps of all the walks in Mrs. Dalloway?!
No, it’s not. It’s digital resources for Modernist publishing.