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Women editing modernism : "little" magazines & literary history / Jayne E. Marek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marek, Jayne E., 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Literature, Experimental--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.
- Literature, Experimental.
- Literature publishing--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
- Literature publishing.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--English-speaking countries.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Little magazines--English-speaking countries.
- Little magazines.
- Women editors--English-speaking countries.
- Women editors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as ""little"" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Marek examines the work of seven women editors -- Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret An
- Contents:
- COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. MAKING THEIR WAYS; 2. BEGINNING IN CHICAGO; 3. READER CRITICS; 4. TOWARD INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ILLUSTRATIONS; 5. THE IRONIC ""EDITORIAL WE""; 6. A DISTORTING LENS; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; N; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-0854-3
- 0-8131-8436-3
- 0-8131-4928-2
- OCLC:
- 897378675
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