1st Edition
Re-Covering Modernism Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form
By David Earle
Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Smart Set, modernism, and the expanded field of magazine production; Pulp modernism; Lurid paperbacks and the re-covering of modernism; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
David M. Earle is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Florida, USA.
'Earle has a voice, an argument, and a breadth of knowledge that combine to make Re-covering Modernism unavoidable, a stele in the road, to be reckoned with.' Sharp News '... [Earle's work] suggests exciting new directions and critical contexts for research in modernist studies.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
