Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry

Lise Jaillant is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She specialises in twentieth-century literary institutions, with a special interest in publishers and creative writing programmes. Her first monograph was Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon: the Modern Library Series, 1917-1955 (Routledge, 2014). She then wrote Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde (EUP, 2017) and she edited Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry (EUP, 2019). Taken together, these three books offer a broad overview of Anglo-American publishers in the early-twentieth-century, and their influence on the diffusion of modern literature.

...the book provides an invaluable introduction, overview, and series of case studies of many of the most important publishers of modernism.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction (Lise Jaillant)Part 1: Pioneers1. Modernism, Reform and the Traditional Business of Books: The B. W. Huebsch Imprint (Catherine Turner)2. Young Americans: Transatlantic Connections in the Early Years at Knopf (Amy Root Clements)3. ‘Glad to be in the Fold’: Boni & Liveright’s Multifold Marketing of Modernism (Jennifer Sorensen)4. The Hogarth Press (Claire Battershill)5. Bringing the Modern to Market: The Case of Faber & Faber (John Xiros Cooper)Part 2: Fine Books6. Shakespeare and Company: Publisher (Joshua Kotin)7. Publishing the Avant-Garde: Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press (Mercedes Aguirre)8. ‘Flowers for the Living’: Crosby Gaige and Modernist Limited Editions (Lise Jaillant)Part 3: Publishing Modernism after the Second World War9. New Directions Books (Greg Barnhisel)10. Grove Press and Samuel Beckett: A Necessary Alliance (Loren Glass)11. Calder and Boyars (Adam Guy)12. Cape Goliard (Matthew Sperling)References