• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    List of Figures
    Acknowledgements
    List of Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Part I Pioneers
    Chapter 1 Modernism, Reform and the Traditional Business of Books: The B. W. Huebsch Imprint
    Chapter 2 Young Americans: Transatlantic Connections in the Early Years at Knopf
    Chapter 3 ‘Glad to be in the Fold’: Boni & Liveright’s Multifold Marketing of Modernism
    Chapter 4 The Hogarth Press
    Chapter 5 Bringing the Modern to Market: The Case of Faber & Faber
    Part II Fine Books
    Chapter 6 Shakespeare and Company: Publisher
    Chapter 7 Publishing the Avant-Garde: Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press
    Chapter 8 ‘Flowers for the Living’: Crosby Gaige and Modernist Limited Editions
    Part III Publishing Modernism after the Second World War
    Chapter 9 New Directions Books
    Chapter 10 Grove Press and Samuel Beckett: A Necessary Alliance
    Chapter 11 Calder and Boyars
    Chapter 12 Cape Goliard
    Notes on Contributors
    Bibliography
    Index
  • Contributor: Jaillant, Lise [VerfasserIn]; Aguirre, Mercedes [MitwirkendeR]; Barnhisel, Greg [MitwirkendeR]; Battershill, Claire [MitwirkendeR]; Clements, Amy Root [MitwirkendeR]; Cooper, John Xiros [MitwirkendeR]; Glass, Loren [MitwirkendeR]; Guy, Adam [MitwirkendeR]; Jaillant, Lise [MitwirkendeR]; Kotin, Joshua [MitwirkendeR]; Sorensen, Jennifer [MitwirkendeR]; Sperling, Matthew [MitwirkendeR]; Turner, Catherine [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.); 18 B/W illustrations
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781474440820
  • ISBN: 9781474440820
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  • Keywords: Literature publishing History ; Modernism (Literature) ; Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.Key Features:The first volume on Anglo-American book publishers that sold difficult modernist texts to a wide range of readers around the worldSheds new light on the relationship between publishers and major modernist writersIncludes essays of broad significance written in an accessible proseDraws on extensive work in neglected archives
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