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).

His book is a testament to the ichness and promise of his own non-modernist angle; and his subject matter has the ethical advantage of modelling a ‘democratisation’ of critical judgement.

• Introduction; 1. Mapping Literary Value: Imperial/Modernist Forms in the Illustrated London News; 2. “Quite Ordinary Men and Women”: John O’London’s Weekly and the Meaning of Authorship; 3. Reactionary Materialism: Book Collecting, Connoisseurship, and the Reading Life in J.C. Squire’s London Mercury; 4. Harold Monro, Poetry Anthologies, and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality; Postscript: Against Modernist Studies; Bibliography.

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).

His book is a testament to the ichness and promise of his own non-modernist angle; and his subject matter has the ethical advantage of modelling a ‘democratisation’ of critical judgement.

• Introduction; 1. Mapping Literary Value: Imperial/Modernist Forms in the Illustrated London News; 2. “Quite Ordinary Men and Women”: John O’London’s Weekly and the Meaning of Authorship; 3. Reactionary Materialism: Book Collecting, Connoisseurship, and the Reading Life in J.C. Squire’s London Mercury; 4. Harold Monro, Poetry Anthologies, and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality; Postscript: Against Modernist Studies; Bibliography.

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).

His book is a testament to the ichness and promise of his own non-modernist angle; and his subject matter has the ethical advantage of modelling a ‘democratisation’ of critical judgement.

• Introduction; 1. Mapping Literary Value: Imperial/Modernist Forms in the Illustrated London News; 2. “Quite Ordinary Men and Women”: John O’London’s Weekly and the Meaning of Authorship; 3. Reactionary Materialism: Book Collecting, Connoisseurship, and the Reading Life in J.C. Squire’s London Mercury; 4. Harold Monro, Poetry Anthologies, and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality; Postscript: Against Modernist Studies; Bibliography.