Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon: The Modern Library Series, 1917-1955

by Lise Jaillant

Book Overview

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series brought out cheap editions of modernist works. Books by writers including H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, were published and marketed alongside detective fiction and other books that we would now class as 'middlebrow'. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the mix of highbrow and popular literature in the Modern Library and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138048402
• ISBN13: 9781138048409
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"