Cheap modernism expanding markets, publishers' series and the avant-garde

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Beteiligte: Jaillant, Lise (VerfasserIn)
Verfasserangabe: Lise Jaillant
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Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2017]
© 2017
Teil von: Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: xi, 172 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN: 9781474417242
1474417248
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
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Erscheint auch als: Jaillant, Lise, Cheap modernism, Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 1 online resource (190 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates)
Weitere Ausgaben: Cheap modernism: expanding markets, publishers' series and the avant-garde
Kollektion: Verbunddaten SWB
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"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