... in electronic literature, bringing what Pressman's attentive readings show to be highly engaging literary texts to a wider audience. Her featured authors, she argues, use modernism to lend credibility to their enterprises, and Pressman does the same for electronic literature itself. Digital Modernism reveals...

... Sara Danius, Mark Goble, Julian Murphet, and Jessica Pressman, Lurz supplants an understanding of print as a stable and staid backdrop against which first photography, radio, and cinema, and then the digital, defined themselves. Lurz presents the modernist novel as not only bracingly attuned to its...

... of his beloved parent, whom he remembers as the mother who abandoned him decades earlier ( Mootoo ). A more explicit focus on the materiality of the letter is clear in a corpus of novels whose narratives and typographical design celebrate the technology of print—the kind of novels that Jessica Pressman...