Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry

Download or read book Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry written by Jaillant Lise Jaillant and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Key Features:The first volume on Anglo-American book publishers that sold difficult modernist texts to a wide range of readers around the worldSheds new light on the relationship between publishers and major modernist writersIncludes essays of broad significance written in an accessible proseDraws on extensive work in neglected archives