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The modernist presses
When we think of US modernist presses, a series of images comes to mind: Horace Liveright, who issued T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land alongside bestselling novels and popular theater plays; Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche, who promoted the new African American literature and original crime fiction by...
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| description | When we think of US modernist presses, a series of images comes to mind: Horace Liveright, who issued T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land alongside bestselling novels and popular theater plays; Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche, who promoted the new African American literature and original crime fiction by Dashiell Hammett; B. W. Huebsch, who published Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, but also radical political texts. This chapter focuses on the diversity of American modernist presses – from avant-garde imprints to long-established houses, from limited editions to inexpensive reprints. The period between the wars has been mythologized as a “golden age.” This chapter scraps the gold to reveal a more nuanced picture of the publishing landscape. As Bennett Cerf (the owner of the Modern Library) declared, flamboyant but dysfunctional houses had no chance of surviving: publishing was a business, and the fun and excitement of discovering new authors would always compete with the necessity of making a profit. |
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| spelling | rr-article-143944132023-07-13T00:00:00Z The modernist presses Lise Jaillant (1384974) publishers Horace Liveright Alfred Knopf Blanche Knopf Ben Huebsch Bennett Cerf Random House Max Perkins Scribner’s <p>When we think of US modernist presses, a series of images comes to mind: Horace Liveright, who issued T. S. Eliot’s <i>The Waste Land</i> alongside bestselling novels and popular theater plays; Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche, who promoted the new African American literature and original crime fiction by Dashiell Hammett; B. W. Huebsch, who published Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, but also radical political texts. This chapter focuses on the diversity of American modernist presses – from avant-garde imprints to long-established houses, from limited editions to inexpensive reprints. The period between the wars has been mythologized as a “golden age.” This chapter scraps the gold to reveal a more nuanced picture of the publishing landscape. As Bennett Cerf (the owner of the Modern Library) declared, flamboyant but dysfunctional houses had no chance of surviving: publishing was a business, and the fun and excitement of discovering new authors would always compete with the necessity of making a profit.</p> 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z Text Chapter 2134/14394413.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/chapter/The_modernist_presses/14394413 All Rights Reserved |
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| topic | publishers Horace Liveright Alfred Knopf Blanche Knopf Ben Huebsch Bennett Cerf Random House Max Perkins Scribner’s |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14394413.v1 |