Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism (Paperback)

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf: The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism (Paperback)

By Helen Southworth (Editor)

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'These essays catalyze a vital critical dialogue about how the "real" world of publishing and book production reflexively shaped the Woolfs' aesthetic and political worldviews... important reading not just for Woolf critics, but also for those more generally interested in the history of the book, modernist publishing, network theory, and cultural studies.'

Alice Staveley, Stanford University, Woolf Studies Annual

This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial choices on writing and culture. Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, the chapters weave together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the press following a 'rich, dialogic' forum or network.

The book brings together a wide range of thematic material in three sections - 'Class and Culture', 'Global Bloomsbury' and 'Marketing Other Modernisms'. Topics addressed in the book include imperialism, the middlebrow, religion, translation, the marketplace and poetry, with case studies on West Indian writer C.L.R. James, Welsh poet Huw Menai, child poet Joan Easdale and American artist E. McKnight Kauffer. This original collection will contribute to three vibrant sub-fields now remaking twentieth-century scholarship: print culture, modernist studies, and Woolf studies.

Product Details ISBN: 9780748647149
ISBN-10: 0748647147
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: May 8th, 2012
Pages: 288
Language: English