Modernist lives : biography and autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press / Claire Battershill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battershill, Claire, author.

Series:

Historicizing modernism.

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hogarth Press.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press Business Archive and first editions from the Virginia Woolf Collection at the E. J. Pratt Library to show how the Woolfs' literary theories were expressed in all aspects of their publishing: their marketing strategies, editorial practice and the literary composition of their acquisitions. Featuring the works of figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Henry Green, Viola Tree, Vita Sackville-West and the Woolf's themselves, Battershill illuminates the history of Hogarth books from their composition to their reception by readers and critics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

1. What the Hogarth Press Published (1917-1946): a. Beyond Bloomsbury ; b. Quantifying the Publisher's List ; c. Types of Books

2. Life Before "The New Biography": The Hogarth Press "Books on Tolstoi" 1920-1924. a. 'Carelessly Jotted Down': Maxim Gorky's Biographical Method ; b. The Autobiography of Countess Sophia Tolstoy ; c. Tolstoi's Love Letters

3. Debates About Biography and Autobiography: a. What Was "New" About the "New Biography"? ; b. Leonard Woolf and the Value of True Stories ; c. The Development of English Biography ; d. Harold Nicolson and the Hogarth Press

4. Marketing, Seriousness and Invention: Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940): a. "No One Wants Biography": Classifying Orlando ; b. "Not a Poet But a Red Cocker Spaniel": Flush and the Problem of Seriousness ; c. Moments of Being in Roger Fry

5. The Hogarth Press Biography Series (1934-1937): a. Autobiografiction ; b. John Lehmann and the New Face of the Hogarth Press ; c. "Everyone Must Be His Own Guinea-Pig": Christopher Isherwood's Lions and Shadows ; d. Fears of Libel and the Publishing of Goodbye to Berlin ; e. "A Long Intimacy Between Strangers": Henry Green's Pack My Bag

Conclusion

Appendices: A. List of Biographies and Autobiographies and Genre Categorizations

B. List Prices, Sales Figures for the First Six Months, Print Run Numbers and Profit and Loss Figures

C. Profits and Losses By Genre

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350043855

1350043850

9781350043848

1350043842

9781350043831

1350043834

OCLC:

1162650025