Modern Print Artefacts : Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)

Collier, Patrick

Edinburgh University Press（2018/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474431507
• DDC分類 686.20941

Full Description

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objects paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. became uniquely visible and significant in these years, as a result of a widely perceived crisis in literary valuation. In a set of case studies, it analyses the relations between literary value, meaning, and textual materiality in print artefacts such as newspapers, magazines, and book genres artefacts that gave form to both literary works and the journalistic content (critical essays, book reviews, celebrity profiles, and advertising) through which conflicting conceptions of literature took shape. In the process, it corrects two available misperceptions about reading in the period: that books were the default mode of reading, and that experimental modernism was the sole literary aesthetic that could usefully represent modern life.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Mapping Literary Value: Imperial/Modernist Forms in the Illustrated London News; 2. "Quite Ordinary Men and Women": John O'London's Weekly and the Meaning of Authorship; 3. Reactionary Materialism: Book Collecting, Connoisseurship, and the Reading Life in J.C. Squire's London Mercury; 4. Harold Monro, Poetry Anthologies, and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality; Postscript: Against Modernist Studies; Bibliography.