Cheap modernism expanding markets, publishers' series and the avant-garde / Lise Jaillant.
| Author/creator | Jaillant, Lise |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xi, 172 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture. ^A1257207 |
| Abstract | "We often think of Mrs Dalloway or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as difficult books, originally published in small print runs for a handful of readers. But from the mid-1920s, these texts and others were available in cheap format across Europe. Uniform series of reprints such as the Travellers' Library, the Phoenix Library, Tauchnitz and Albatross sold modernism to a wide audience, thus transforming a little-read 'highbrow' movement into a popular phenomenon. The expansion of the readership for modernism was not only vertical (from 'high' to 'low') but also spatial, since publisher's series were distributed within and outside metropolitan centres in Britain, continental Europe and elsewhere. Many non-English native speakers discovered texts by Joyce, Woolf and others in the original language, a fact that has rarely been mentioned in histories of modernism. Drawing on extensive work in neglected archives, Cheap Modernism will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016288461 |
| ISBN | 9781474417242 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1474417248 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (webready PDF) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |