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

by Lise Jaillant

Book Overview

The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomenon
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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474441327
• ISBN13: 9781474441322
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"