Publishing modernist fiction and poetry / edited by Lise Jaillant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaillant, Lise, Author.

Contributor:

Jaillant, Lise, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature publishing--History.

Literature publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 280 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4083-5

1-4744-4082-7

OCLC:

1312726274