Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Cheap Modernism : Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde, Hardback Book

Cheap Modernism : Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde Hardback

Hardback

Out of stock

Description

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.

Information

Other Formats

Save 18%

£90.00

£73.25

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information