Modern print artefacts : textual materiality and literary value in British print culture, 1890-1930s

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Modern print artefacts : textual materiality and literary value in British print culture, 1890-1930s

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textual materiality and literary value in British print culture, 1890-1930s

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Patrick Collier

Language

eng

Summary

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The book demonstrates that the materiality of print objectś04paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc.́04became uniquely visible and significant in these years, as a result of a widely perceived crisis in literary valuation. In a set of case studies, it analyses the relations between literary value, meaning, and textual materiality in print artefacts such as newspapers, magazines, and book genreś04artefacts that gave form to both literary works and the journalistic content (critical essays, book reviews, celebrity profiles, and advertising) through which conflicting conceptions of literature took shape. In the process, it corrects two available misperceptions about reading in the period: that books were the default mode of reading, and that experimental modernism was the sole literary aesthetic that could usefully represent modern life

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

002.09

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illustrations
plates

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index present

LC call number

Z8.G7

LC item number

C65 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

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