A01=David Earle
Author_David Earle
avant-garde publishing history
Black Mask
book
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chatterley's
cultural elitism critique
Early Pulps
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golden
Golden Book
Great Divide
Harlem Renaissance
Independent Woman
Joseph Blotner
lady
literary reception theory
magazines
material culture studies
modernist literature dissemination
Paperback Covers
Paperback Form
Paperback Publishers
popular
Popular Modernism
pulp
Pulp Authors
Pulp Form
Pulp Genre
Pulp Modernism
Pulp Paperback
Pulp Reader
Pulp Writer
Reprint Magazines
set
smart
Smart Magazines
Smart Set
Snappy Stories
twentieth-century print culture
Vanity Fair
visual textual analysis
Wild Palms
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472485106
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why modernist literature came to be viewed as the exclusive purview of a cultural elite given its availability in such popular forums. As he examines sensational and popular manifestations of modernism, as well as their reception by critics and readers, Earle provides a methodology for reconciling formerly separate or contradictory materialist, cultural, visual, and modernist approaches to avant-garde literature. Central to Earle's innovative approach is his consideration of the physical aspects of the books and magazines - covers, dust wrappers, illustrations, cost - which become texts in their own right. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Earle's study shows that modernism emerged in a publishing ecosystem that was both richer and more complex than has been previously documented.
David M. Earle is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Florida, USA.
