Edinburgh University Press Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry

Publishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Review this is an important collection packed full of empirical information that should allow the increasingly important role afforded to book publishers to continue developing --The Review of English StudiesPublishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry is essential reading for anyone interested in re-thinking the vital part book publishers played in Anglo-American modernism. In place of the canonical story about small presses, even littler magazines, and collectable editions, centred on the 1920s, it ranges over the half century up to the 1970s, showing how rapidly the major writers of the long modernist moment entered the mainstream, thanks to the enterprising publishers who saw their long-term potential particularly in the new era of mass higher education. --Peter D. McDonald, author of Artefact of WritingPublishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry makes a valuable and timely argument: that the materiality, the haptics, and the economics of modernism cannot be ignored, and that publishing is a crucial lens through which to view these --TMR [The Modernist Review] From the Inside Flap Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Lise Jaillant is an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Leader Fellow. She teaches in the School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. From the Back Cover Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movement Publishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Lise Jaillant is an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Leader Fellow. She teaches in the School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. About the Author Lise Jaillant is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK.