Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s - Couverture souple

Collier, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147443150X ISBN 13 : 9781474431507

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Collier is Professor of Literature at Ball State University, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and film studies. He is the author of Modernism on Fleet Street (2006) and the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies and of the collections Transatlantic Print Culture 1880-1940 (2008) and Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147443150X
• ISBN 13: 9781474431507
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible