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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

Thacker, Andrew, Brooker, Peter

2013,2009

Overview

The first of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this book studies the wide and varied range of ‘little magazines’ which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and artistic modernism in the UK and Ireland. Thirty-seven chapters investigate the inner dynamics and economic and intellectual conditions that governed the life of these fugitive but vibrant publications. The book shows the role of editors and sponsors, the relation of the arts to contemporary philosophy and politics, the effects of war and economic depression and of the survival in hard times of radical ideas and a belief in innovation. The chapters are arranged according to historical themes with accompanying contextual introductions, and include studies of the New Age, Blast, the Egoist and the Criterion, New Writing, New Verse, and Scrutiny as well as of lesser known magazines such as the Evergreen, Coterie, the Bermondsey Book, the Mask, Welsh Review, the Modern Scot, and the Bell.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Arts / History / Literary Studies (20th Century onwards) / Literature and society / Little magazines / Modernism (Aesthetics)
• ISBN: 0199654298, 9780199654291, 9780199211159, 0199211159