Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940

Publishing Empire considers how authors from areas colonized by Britain navigated the complex publishing culture in late imperial England and examines how these authors' books contributed to constructions of colonial authorship taking shape before the Second World War. Drawing on book historical and digital methods, the project looks closely at the material forms of individual texts by Rabindranath Tagore, Claude McKay, Sarojini Naidu, William Plomer, and C.L.R. James, and it also examines publishing information for over 1,200 English-language books by authors from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean who published in England during the first four decades of the 20th century.