Jesse Schotter

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Jesse Schotter is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University.  His book Hieroglyphic Modernisms: Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century was recently published in the Critical Studies in Modernist Culture Series at Edinburgh University Press.

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In her 1926 essay “Impassioned Prose,” Virginia Woolf seeks to distinguish herself from her Edwardian predecessors, writing that “they ignore [the mind’s] thoughts, its rhapsodies, its dreams . . . while prose itself . . . will be fit . . . to write nothing but the immortal works of Bradshaw and Baedeker.” [1] Like her fellow modern novelists E. M. Forster and Henry James, like Mina Loy with her Lost Lunar Baedeker or T. S. Eliot with his “Burbank with a Baedeker; Bleistein with a Cigar,” Woolf...