Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon

Lise Jaillant is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Loughborough University, UK.

"Jaillant’s study provides fascinating insight into the marketing methods of the Modern Library" --Loren Glass, University of Iowa, Los Angeles Review of Books

• 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