Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780748647149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Helen Southworth

Opis

This multi-authored volume, newly available in paperback, focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial choices on writing and culture. Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, the chapters weave together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the press following a 'rich, dialogic' forum or network.The book brings together a wide range of thematic material in three sections - 'Class and Culture', 'Global Bloomsbury' and 'Marketing Other Modernisms'. Topics addressed in the book include imperialism, the middlebrow, religion, translation, the marketplace and poetry, with case studies on West Indian writer C.L.R. James, Welsh poet Huw Menai, child poet Joan Easdale and American artist E. McKnight Kauffer. This original collection will contribute to three vibrant sub-fields now remaking twentieth-century scholarship: print culture, modernist studies, and Woolf studies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction, Helen Southworth; A Hogarth Press Timeline; PART I: Class and Culture; 1. 'W.H. Day Spender' Had a Sister: Joan Adeney Easdale, Mark Hussey; 2. The Middlebrows of the Hogarth Press: Rose Macaulay, E.M. Delafield, and Cultural Hierarchies in Interwar Britain, Melissa Sullivan; 3. Woolfs' in Sheep's Clothing: The Hogarth Press and 'Religion', Diane F. Gillespie; PART II: Global Bloomsbury; 4. The Hogarth Press and Networks of Anti-Colonialism, Anna Snaith; 5. William Plomer, the Hogarth Press, and Geomodernism, John K. Young; 6. The Writer, the Prince, and the Scholar: Virginia Woolf, D.S. Mirsky, and Jane Harrison's Russian Translation of The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, by Himself - a Re-Evaluation of the Radical Politics of the Hogarth Press, Jean Mills; PART III: Marketing Other Modernisms; 7. On or about December 1928, the Hogarth Press Changed: E.McKnight Kauffer, Art Markets and the Hogarth Press 1928-1939, Elizabeth Willson Gordon; 8. 'Going Over': The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and Working-Class Voices, Helen Southworth; 9. 'Oh Lord what it is to publish a bestseller': The Woolfs' Professional Relationship with Vita Sackville-West', Stephen Barkway; Notes on Contributors; Index.