![](http://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn:cambridge.org:id:book:9781474413480/resource/name/9781474413480i.jpg)
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Online publication date:
- April 2017
- Print publication year:
- 2016
- Online ISBN:
- 9781474413480
- Subjects:
- Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1900-1945
12th August 2024: digital purchasing is currently unavailable on Cambridge Core. Due to recent technical disruption affecting our publishing operation, we are experiencing some delays to publication. We are working hard to restore services as soon as possible and apologise for the inconvenience. For further updates please visit our website: https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident
Demonstrates the ways in which print artefacts asserted and contested literary value in the modernist period.
This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objects – paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. – became uniquely visible and significant in these years, as a result of a widely perceived crisis in literary valuation. In a set of case studies, it analyses the relations between literary value, meaning, and textual materiality in print artefacts such as newspapers, magazines, and book genres – artefacts that gave form to both literary works and the journalistic content (critical essays, book reviews, celebrity profiles, and advertising) through which conflicting conceptions of literature took shape. In the process, it corrects two available misperceptions about reading in the period: that books were the default mode of reading, and that experimental modernism was the sole literary aesthetic that could usefully represent modern life.
Key Features* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.
Usage data cannot currently be displayed.