Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:19th Oct '10
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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 Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial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.Key features:* A significant intervention in current debates on theorising and contextualising modernism* Draws on established Hogarth Press and author-specific archives to open up previously-neglected writers for fresh study* Provides a new view of the Woolfs' achievements as publishers* Sets the agenda for further scholarship in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017
A welcome and long-overdue examination...a valuable resource for scholarship on Virginia Woolf, modernist print culture, and modernist studies in general. -- Pamela L. Caughie * Archiv *
Through its richly detailed contributions, wide in scope, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hofarth Press and the Networks of Modernism demonstrates that vital forces for change include variegated strands of artistry and revolution, and that these strands cannot in the end be separated when we consider Leonard, Virginia and the Hogarth Press. -- Karen R. Daubert * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *
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. And when its own dust jacket has long ago been discarded by those devourers of time (aka library shelving practices), these essays will remind us that what has been materially lost or hidden from view is well worth digging up, re-presenting, and crafting into new narratives that challenge the orthodox view. * Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 18, 2012 *
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
ISBN: 9780748642274
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 567g
288 pages