Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: ‘Good Taste in Reading’
- 1 H. G. Wells, Science and Sex in the Modern Library, 1917–31
- 2 ‘The Modern Library is Something Magnificent’: Sherwood Anderson and the Canon of American Literature
- 3 Blurring the Boundaries: Detective Fiction and Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the Modern Library
- 4 Woolf in the Modern Library: Bridging the Gap between Professional and Common Readers
- 5 Canonical in the 1930s: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop in the Modern Library Series
- 6 ‘If it's Like Any Introduction You Ever Read, I'll Eat the Jacket’: Faulkner's Sanctuary, the Modern Library and the Literary Canon
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: ‘Good Taste in Reading’
- 1 H. G. Wells, Science and Sex in the Modern Library, 1917–31
- 2 ‘The Modern Library is Something Magnificent’: Sherwood Anderson and the Canon of American Literature
- 3 Blurring the Boundaries: Detective Fiction and Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the Modern Library
- 4 Woolf in the Modern Library: Bridging the Gap between Professional and Common Readers
- 5 Canonical in the 1930s: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop in the Modern Library Series
- 6 ‘If it's Like Any Introduction You Ever Read, I'll Eat the Jacket’: Faulkner's Sanctuary, the Modern Library and the Literary Canon
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary CanonThe Modern Library Series, 1917–1955, pp. i - viPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014