Introduction 1. Sensual Print 2. Print in Circulation 3. Print, Politics and Audiences Conclusion Bibliography Suggested Reading Index
A critical guide to Modernist publishing culture in the USA, Europe and the UK, from avant-garde magazines to mass market paperback publishing.
Faye Hammill is Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Her most recent books are Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture (2015), with Michelle Smith, and Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History (2010), winner of the European Society for the Study of English book award. Mark Hussey is Distinguished Professor of English at Pace University, USA. He is editor of the Cambridge edition of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (2011) and edits Woolf Studies Annual.
An exemplary book … Modernism’s Print Cultures maintains these high
standards and is the best single introduction to the newish field
of modernism’s complex engagement with book history, periodical
studies, and various other forms of printed materials: it is
impressive in its coverage and authoritative in its judgments … If
you wish to learn more of how the field of print culture studies is
transforming the study of modernism, this book is the place to
start.
*James Joyce Quarterly*
Hammill (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK) and Hussey (Pace Univ.) survey
the wide range of scholarly work produced during the past 25 years
that has examined and analyzed literary modernism from the
perspective of print culture. The focus on print culture is
reflected in the subjects covered: chapter 1 looks at scholarly
publications about “the physical and visual aspects of modernist
printed objects,” chapter 2 examines publications about “the
circulation of those objects in the marketplace,” and chapter 3
deals with publications about “the political and educational
dimensions of print enterprises.” … [F]or those already familiar
with modernist studies, this valuable, nonevaluative survey
highlights certain trends in scholarship (especially the increasing
interest in modernism in periodicals and in regarding all literary
publications as collaboratively produced) and calls attention to
the many publications, websites, and so forth that can inform
future scholarly research. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate
students, researchers, faculty.
*CHOICE*
Hammill and Hussey move methodically through the history of book
history and periodical studies since modernism’s infancy, arguing
that “it is possible to trace an almost continuous attention to the
issues and questions addressed by the term ‘print culture’ from the
late nineteenth century . . . to now” (24). Their task is to
demonstrate how the attention paid to modernist print culture in
the twenty-first century has illuminated the fact that the debates
and insights of our contemporary critical practice are precisely
those than animated writers, editors, publishers, and readers more
than a hundred years earlier. At this they succeed with real
distinction, devoting substantial chapters to the modernist book
(and magazine) as a physical object, the circulation of modernist
print, and the social life of politically oriented publications.
Throughout, they are commanding and lucid, detailing a robust
archive while at the same time attending to how critical
engagements with that archive continue to rewrite the story of
modernist studies.
*Modernism/modernity*
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