Modernist Writers and the Marketplace

Modernist Writers and the Marketplace
Author: Warren Chernaik
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 331
Release: 1996-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780333606599

Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven contributors from six countries demonstrate new developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism.

Modernist Writers and the Marketplace

Modernist Writers and the Marketplace
Author: Warren Chernaik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1996-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349245518

Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven contributors from six countries demonstrate new developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism.

"Am I a Snob?"

Author: Sean Latham
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780801488412

Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the process, some novelists and their works became emblems of sophistication, treated as if they were somehow apart from or above the fiction of the popular marketplace, while others found a popular audience. Latham argues that both coterie writers like Joyce and popular novelists like Sayers struggled desperately to combat their own pretensions. By portraying snobs in their novels, they attempted to critique and even transform the cultural and economic institutions that they felt isolated them from the broad readership they desired.Latham regards the snobbery that emerged from and still clings to modernism not as an unfortunate by-product of aesthetic innovation, but as an ongoing problem of cultural production. Drawing on the tools and insights of literary sociology and cultural studies, he traces the nineteenth-century origins of the "snob," then explores the ways in which modernist authors developed their own snobbery as a means of coming to critical consciousness regarding the connections among social, economic, and cultural capital. The result, Latham asserts, is a modernism directly engaged with the cultural marketplace yet deeply conflicted about the terms of its success.

Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon

Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Author: Lise Jaillant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317317777

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.

Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry

Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
Author: Lise Jaillant
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474440827

Publishing 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.

Modernism and the Marketplace

Modernism and the Marketplace
Author: Alissa G. Karl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136094741

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

Up to Maughty London

Up to Maughty London
Author: Eleni Loukopoulou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 9780813062242

This book examines the largely under-explored connection between Joyce's writings, their publication history, and the city of London, arguing that the metropolis was an important political and cultural center for Joyce.

Consuming Traditions

Consuming Traditions
Author: Elizabeth Outka
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0195372697

"Examples of faux authenticity abound in today's marketplace. Trading on the commercial appeal of the ersatz real, however, is far from a twenty-first century invention. As Consuming Traditions investigates, the allure of commodified nostalgia and the selling of the "genuine" article emerged as powerful forces in early twentieth-century Britain." "Elizabeth Outka redefines the debates surrounding literary modernism and the market as she explores the marketing of authenticity, a crucial but overlooked development in the history of modernity. With an interdisciplinary approach that probes novels, plays, advertisements, and architecture, Consuming Traditions presents a convincing case for how the "commodified authentic" - the selling of objects and places allegedly free of commercial taint - marks a critical turn in modern culture and offers a new way to understand literary modernism and its complex negotiation of tradition and novelty. Drawing on cultural studies, theories of consumerism, and works by Shaw, Forster, Woolf, Joyce, and others, Outka examines how literature both enacted and critiqued the larger revolution in material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Commemorative Modernisms

Commemorative Modernisms
Author: Alice Kelly
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474459927

This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.