1st Edition
Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Introduction: Material Formalism and Dynamic Materiality
I. Play with Periodical Pagescapes
Chapter One: Henry James Experiments with Print Culture Pagescapes in Transatlantic Periodicals
II. Bookish Bodies
Chapter Two: Reading the Body of Boni & Liveright’s & Djuna Barnes’s A Book
Chapter Three: Broken Arcs and Black Super-Vaudeville: Design and Dismemberment in the Boni & Liveright Production of Jean Toomer’s Cane
III. Mixed-Media Material Aesthetics
Chapter Four: Reframing the Book
Chapter Five: Mixed-Media Modernism and the Book-as-Object
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jennifer J. Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, USA.
"Ultimately, Sorensen’s work is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on the matter of modernism and offers new and necessary pathways into the work of these well-known writers."
- Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose, The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
