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Author Harris, Donal, author.

Title On company time : American modernism in the big magazines / Donal Harris
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)
Series Modernist Latitudes
Modernist latitudes.
Contents Willa Cather's promiscuous fiction -- Printing the color line in The Crisis -- On the clock: rewriting literary work at Time Inc. -- Our Eliot: mass modernism and the American century -- Hemingway's disappearing style
Summary "Starting in the 1890s, a growing number of writers found steady paychecks and regular publishing opportunities as editors and reporters at big magazines. Often privileging innovative style over late-breaking content, these magazines prized novelists and poets for their innovation and attention to literary craft. In recounting this history, On Company Time challenges the narrative of decline that often accompanies modernism's incorporation into midcentury middlebrow culture. Its integrated account of literary and journalistic form shows American modernism evolving within as opposed to against mass print culture. Harris's work also provides an understanding of modernism that extends beyond narratives centered on little magazines and other "institutions of modernism" that served narrow audiences. And for the writers, the "double life" of working for these magazines shaped modernism's literary form and created new models of authorship."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
American literature
Authors and publishers
Literature and society
Modernism (Literature)
Periodicals -- Publishing
Popular literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016024427
ISBN 9780231541343
0231541341