Women Editing Modernism: Little Magazines and Literary History

For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as "little" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Mar

Author: Jayne Marek
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 10/12/1995
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780813108544

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1995 pg. 176
Booklist 11/15/1995 pg. 530

About the Author

Jayne Marek is associate professor of English at Franklin College.

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