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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787470903321

Autore

Marek Jayne E. <1954->

Titolo

Women editing modernism : "little" magazines & literary history / / Jayne E. Marek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8131-8436-3

0-8131-4928-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/1

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries

Literature, Experimental - English-speaking countries - History and criticism

Literature publishing - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - English-speaking countries

Little magazines - English-speaking countries

Women editors - English-speaking countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. MAKING THEIR WAYS; 2. BEGINNING IN CHICAGO; 3. READER CRITICS; 4. TOWARD INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ILLUSTRATIONS; 5. THE IRONIC ""EDITORIAL WE""; 6. A DISTORTING LENS; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; N; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as ""little"" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of



them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Marek examines the work of seven women editors -- Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret An