Modernism edited : Marianne Moore and the Dial magazine / Victoria Bazin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazin, Victoria, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

Moore, Marianne.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Examines Marianne Moore’s editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929WINNER of the RSAP Book Prize!Returns to controversial case of Moore’s revisions to Hart Crane’s ‘The Wine Menagerie’Uncovers evidence that points to Moore’s revisions to the work of other well-known modernistsConceptualizes editorial agencyDevelops methodologies for critically engaging with magazine contentUncovers and analyses Moore’s advertisements for the DialProduces a sustained analysis of Moore’s editorial comments for the DialDraws on Moore’s poetics to understand her editorial revisionsAs editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazines have largely overlooked her editorial influence. Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine makes visible Moore’s contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency. It explores the public face of the modernist editor, the image of highbrow distinction circulated by the Dial and embodied by the figure of ‘Miss Moore’. It also examines Moore’s editorial practice as a form of modernist ‘contractility’ drawing on her own poetics to understand more fully the motives underpinning her revisions. It returns to the well-known case of Moore’s radical cuts to Hart Crane’s poem ‘The Wine Menagerie’ as well as instances of collaborative struggle with Williams Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld and D. H. Lawrence. In doing so, the book conceptualises editorial labour as a form of creative and critical social practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Series Editors’ Preface

Introduction

1 The Social Production of Modernism

2 Editorial Agency: Performing ‘Miss Moore’

3 Promotional Prose and Editorial Comments

4 Hart Crane Distilled

5 Modernists Edited: Joyce, Stein, Lawrence and Rosenfeld

6 Periodical Form and the Dialogics of Gender

7 Poetic ‘Struggle’ as Modernist Production

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-1731-0

OCLC:

1312726121