Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture: 1895-1925

The book explores the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, tracing the serialization and advertisement of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" in Colliers, McClures and Cassells, and the Little Review and the Dial, respectively. It reveals the central role of compromise and chance in the emergence of Modernism and brings to light new research from multiple archives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Modernism, a collaborative and consumer-oriented movement, emerged from both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals. This book explores the serialization and advertisement of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw in Colliers (1898), Rudyard Kipling's Kim in McClures and Cassells (1900-1901), James Joyce's Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" in the Dial (1923). These periodicals, whether mass-market journals or literary magazines, challenge our perceptions of authors who are often considered to be "in charge" and reveal the central role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism. Sigler's book brings to light new research from multiple archives, including original records of journals advertising strategies, previously unpublished editorial correspondence, and long-buried letters, to unearth the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know so well.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350235441