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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

Volumes 1, 3, 4 & 5 of The Masses are now online (5/13)
The first 42 issues of The Masses (1911-1917) are now available at the MJP (please note that volume 2 does not exist). We'll post the remaining 37 issues of this journal as we complete them—probably within the next month or so.
An Introduction to the Imagist Anthologies (3/13)
Abel Debritto, a Fulbright Fellow at the MJP, has composed an introduction to Imagism and the Imagist Anthologies that Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others published between 1914 and 1917. Click here to read it.
The Seven Arts is now online (10/12)
All twelve issues (and one supplement) of The Seven Arts (1916-1917) are now available at the MJP. This is the first of five American journals that we will be making available over the course of the next two years as part of our current NEH grant.
Le Petit Journal des Refusées: new and improved (10/12)
We’ve replaced our old version of Le Petit Journal des Refusées (1896) with a high-resolution duplicate, and we’ve supplemented this one copy with two others—which now gives users three unique views of this very peculiar journal.
A New Introduction to Le Petit Journal des Refusées (9/12)
Brad Evans, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, has composed an introduction to Le Petit Journal des Refusées, a very curious single-issue magazine published by Gelett Burgess in the summer of 1896. Click here to read it.
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.