Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
Edited by Lise Jaillant
Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movement
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction (Lise Jaillant)
Part 1: Pioneers
1. Modernism, Reform and the Traditional Business of Books: The B. W. Huebsch Imprint (Catherine Turner)
2. Young Americans: Transatlantic Connections in the Early Years at Knopf (Amy Root Clements)
3. ‘Glad to be in the Fold’: Boni & Liveright’s Multifold Marketing of Modernism (Jennifer Sorensen)
4. The Hogarth Press (Claire Battershill)
5. Bringing the Modern to Market: The Case of Faber & Faber (John Xiros Cooper)
Part 2: Fine Books
6. Shakespeare and Company: Publisher (Joshua Kotin)
7. Publishing the Avant-Garde: Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press (Mercedes Aguirre)
8. ‘Flowers for the Living’: Crosby Gaige and Modernist Limited Editions (Lise Jaillant)
Part 3: Publishing Modernism after the Second World War
9. New Directions Books (Greg Barnhisel)
10. Grove Press and Samuel Beckett: A Necessary Alliance (Loren Glass)
11. Calder and Boyars (Adam Guy)
12. Cape Goliard (Matthew Sperling)
References
...the book provides an invaluable introduction, overview, and series of case studies of many of the most important publishers of modernism.
in its combination of scope and detail, this collection marks a watershed in work on modernist book publishing. It amounts to both a powerful, fresh account of the construction and persistence of modernist literature’s cultural value and a set of consistently well-researched, richly detailed, and readable case studies.
Illuminating the economics and editorial development behind modernist texts, this important volume not only extends book studies research into the early 20th century but also identifies the reliance of authors like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf on commercial publishing ventures.
The excellent essays collected in Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry are essential reading for modernist and Joycean scholars alike.
Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry is essential reading for anyone interested in re-thinking the vital part book publishers played in Anglo-American modernism. In place of the canonical story about small presses, even littler magazines, and collectable editions, centred on the 1920s, it ranges over the half century up to the 1970s, showing how rapidly the major writers of the long modernist moment entered the mainstream, thanks to the enterprising publishers who saw their long-term potential particularly in the new era of mass higher education.
Lise Jaillant’s edited collection Publishing Modernist Poetry and Fiction is a significant contribution to the study of transatlantic literary culture during the interwar years.
this is an important collection packed full of empirical information that should allow the increasingly important role afforded to book publishers to continue developing
Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry makes a valuable and timely argument: that the materiality, the haptics, and the economics of modernism cannot be ignored, and that publishing is a crucial lens through which to view these
