Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781474441322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Lise Jaillant

Opis

Drawing on extensive work in neglected archives, 'Cheap Modernism' will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit.

Spis treści

Introduction – Discovering Modernism: Travel, Pleasure and Publishers’ Series; 1. ‘Introductions by Eminent Writers’: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Oxford World’s Classics Series; 2. Pocketable Provocateurs: James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in the Travellers’ Library and New Adelphi Library; 3. Rewriting Tarr Ten Years Later: Wyndham Lewis, the Phoenix Library and the Domestication of Modernism; 4. ‘Parasitic Publishers’? Tauchnitz, Albatross and the Continental Diffusion of Anglophone Modernism; 5. ‘Classics behind Plate Glass’: the Hogarth Press and the Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.