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Modern Print Artefacts

Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s

Patrick Collier author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:28th Feb '18

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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 objects paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. became 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 genres artefacts 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.

ISBN: 9781474431507

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288 pages