Format:
xi, 172 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781474417242
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Content:
"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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474417259
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474417266
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Jaillant, Lise Cheap modernism Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781474417259
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Literatur
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Avantgarde
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Monografische Reihe
;
Geschichte 1920-1960
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Englisch
;
Literatur
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Kanon
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Buchmarkt
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Nachdruck
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Verbreitung
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Geschichte 1925-1940
Author information:
Jaillant, Lise
