Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s
Patrick Collier
Abstract
Modern Print Artefacts examines the workings of literary value at the turn of the twentieth century through case studies of British periodicals and print genres. It argues that the materiality of print artefacts—including characteristics such as typography, paper quality, visual appearance, and organization—was both a sign and a generator of literary value in this period. Indeed, the materiality of print artefacts was particularly visible in these years, Collier argues, as literary modernism and growth in publishing and the press destabilized the landscape of literary value. The book traces th ... More
Keywords: Literary value, Periodicals, periodical studies, textual materiality, modernism, fin de siècle, early-twentieth century, magazines, newspapers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474413473 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413473.001.0001 |
