Modernist Lives
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Modernist Lives

Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Modernist Lives

Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press

About this book

Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press Business Archive and first editions from the Virginia Woolf Collection at the E. J. Pratt Library to show how the Woolfs' literary theories were expressed in all aspects of their publishing: their marketing strategies, editorial practice and the literary composition of their acquisitions. Featuring the works of figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Henry Green, Viola Tree, Vita Sackville-West and the Woolf's themselves, Battershill illuminates the history of Hogarth books from their composition to their reception by readers and critics.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781350134232
eBook ISBN
9781350043848
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Editorial Preface to Historicizing Modernism
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. ‘Works of Merit’: What the Hogarth Press Published (1917–1946)
  12. 2. ‘A Fig for Literature! This Is Life’: The Hogarth Press ‘Books on Tolstoi’ (1920–1924)
  13. 3. Elastic Categories: Debates about Biography and Autobiography (1923–1929)
  14. 4. Marketing, Seriousness and Invention: Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940)
  15. 5. Tufty Eyebrows and Salty Countenances: The Hogarth Press Biography Series (1934–1937)
  16. 6. The Reticent Autobiografictions of Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood (1938–1940)
  17. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Hogarth Press
  18. Appendix A: List of Biographies and Autobiographies and Genre Categorizations
  19. Appendix B: List Prices, Sales Figures for the First Six Months, Print Run Numbers, and Profit and Loss Figures
  20. Notes
  21. Works Cited
  22. Index