Title Modernist experiments in genre, media, and transatlantic print culture / Jennifer J. Sorensen

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) Series Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital Studies in publishing history. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: material formalism and dynamic materiality; Part I Play with periodical pagescapes; 1 Henry James experiments with print culture pagescapes in transatlantic periodicals: the recursive style and material aesthetics of "The Real Thing"; Part II Bookish bodies; 2 Reading the body of Djuna Barnes's A Book: mixed genre madness -- "What a devastating convalescence"; 3 Design and dismemberment: Cane's bookish embodiment; Part III Mixed-media material aesthetics 4 Reframing the book: Virginia Woolf experiments with verbal and visual genres in Flush: A Biography5 Mixed-media modernism and the book-as-object: the Hogarth Press's visual and verbal experiments in Two Stories, Prelude, and Kew Gardens; Coda: modernism's material afterlives: the un-death of the book; Bibliography; Index Summary The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the material forms and circuits of print culture through which they were produced and distributed, Jennifer Sorensen shows how authors and publishers conceptualized the material text as an object, as a body, and as an ontological problem. She examines works by Henry James, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf, showing that they understood acts of reading as materially mediated encounters. Sorensen draws on recent textual theory, media theory, archival materials, and paratexts such as advertisements, illustrations, book designs, drafts, diaries, dust jackets, notes, and frontispieces, to demonstrate how these writers radically redefined literary genres and refashioned the material forms through which their literary experiments reached the public. Placing the literary text at the center of inquiry while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of what counts as that, Sorensen shows that modernist generic and formal experimentation was deeply engaged with specific print histories that generated competitive media ecologies of competition and hybridization Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2018) Subject Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Modernism (Literature) -- United States Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Press -- United States Press -- Great Britain Journalism -- United States. Journalism -- Great Britain Modernism (Literature) Authors and publishers -- History -- 19th century Authors and publishers -- History -- 20th century Literature publishing -- History -- 19th century Literature publishing -- History -- 20th century LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing. Authors and publishers Journalism Literature publishing Modernism (Literature) Press Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317094548 1317094549 9781317094531 1317094530 9781315595931 1315595931 9781317094524 1317094522

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