Demonstrates the ways in which print artefacts asserted and contested literary value in the modernist period.<p>This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materialit...

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1. Verfasser:	Collier, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:	Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1890-1940 Geschichte Books / Great Britain / History Books and reading / Great Britain / History English literature / Criticism, Textual Printing / Great Britain / History Massenfertigung Literaturproduktion Autorschaft Buchdruck Großbritannien
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Zusammenfassung:	Demonstrates the ways in which print artefacts asserted and contested literary value in the modernist period.<p>This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objects – paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. – became uniquely visible and significant in these years, as a result of a widely perceived crisis in literary valuation. In a set of case studies, it analyses the relations between literary value, meaning, and textual materiality in print artefacts such as newspapers, magazines, and book genres – artefacts that gave form to both literary works and the journalistic content (critical essays, book reviews, celebrity profiles, and advertising) through which conflicting conceptions of literature took shape. In the process, it corrects two available misperceptions about reading in the period: that books were the default mode of reading, and that experimental modernism was the sole literary aesthetic that could usefully represent modern life.</p>Key Features<ul><li>Gives readers access to a sphere of literary production and reception that is virtually unexamined by existing scholarship</li><li>Provides a fresh view of literary production and the print marketplace by refusing to foreground literary modernism as a critical lens. Instead, it focuses on more widely read and accessible print artefacts, including the Illustrated London News in the 1890s; the London Mercury; John O'London's Weekly; and the poetry anthology as a book genre</li><li>The book constitutes a simultaneously historical and theoretical inquiry into the workings of literary value</li></ul>
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017) Introduction: Modern print artefacts -- Mapping literary value: imperial/modernist forms in the Illustrated London News -- 'Quite ordinary men and women': John O'London's Weekly and the meaning of authorship -- Reactionary materialism: book collecting, connoisseurship and the reading life in J.C. Squire's London Mercury -- Harold Monro, poetry anthologies and the rhetoric of textual materiality -- Postscript: Against 'modernist studies' -- Bibliography -- Index
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) digital, PDF file(s)