A danger to the minds of young girls : Margaret C. Anderson, book bans, and the fight to modernize literature / Adam Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Periodicals.

Literature.

Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Women publishers--United States--Biography.

Women publishers.

Censorship--United States--20th century.

Censorship.

Literature--Periodicals.

Anderson, Margaret C.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Margaret C. Anderson, book bans, and the fight to modernize literature

Place of Publication:

New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025.

Summary:

"Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson's cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early 20th century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like women's suffrage, access to birth control, and LBGTQ rights. But then it went too far. In 1921, Anderson found herself on trial and labeled "a danger to the minds of young girls" by a government seeking to shut her down. Guilty of having serialized James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses in her magazine, Anderson was now not just a publisher but also a scapegoat for regressives seeking to impose their will on a world on the brink of modernization."-- Publisher's annotation.

Contents:

Dramatis Personae

Preface: Winter 1921

Part I: Chicago 1886-1916

Escape and conquer the world 1886-1913

Make no compromise 1913-1914

Vagabonds 1914-1916

Part II: New York 1917-1923

The free and independent republic of Greenwich Village 1917-1918

The ravings of a disordered mind 1918-1919

The perfect enemy 1920

The trial 1921-1922

Part III: Paris 1922-1973

The tiger woman 1923-1924

The forest philosopher 1924-1929

The rope 1930-1976

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index.

ISBN:

9781668053645

1668053640

OCLC:

1553844403

Publisher Number:

90103253177