Modernism's Print Cultures [Hardcover]

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies.Modernism's Print Culturessurveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades, the book explores such topics as:

- Periodical publishing  from 'little magazines' such asRhythmto glossy publications such asVanity Fair
-The material aspects of early twentieth-century publishing  small presses, typography, illustration and book design
- The circulation of modernist print artefacts through the book trade, libraries, book clubs and cafes
-Educational and political print initiatives

Including accounts of archival material available online, targeted lists of key further reading and a survey of new trends in the field, this is an essential guide to an important area in the study of modernist literature.

Hammill and Hussey move methodically through the history of book history and periodical studies since modernisms infancy, arguing that it is possible to trace an almost continuous attention to the issues and questions addressed by the term print culture from the late nineteenth century . . . to now (24). Their task is to demonstrate how the attention paid to modernist print culture in the twenty-first century has illuminated the fact that the debates and insights of our contemporary critical practice are precisely those than animated writers, editors, publishers, and readers more than a hundred years earlier. At this they succeed with real distinction, devoting substantial chapters to the modernist book (and magazine) as a physical object, the circulation of modernist print, and the social life of politically oriented publications. Throughout, they are commanding and lucid, detailing a robust archive while at the same time attending to how critical engagelc$