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Modern print artefacts : textual materiality and literary value in British print culture, 1890-1930s /
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 objectś⁰₄paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc.́⁰₄became uniquely visible a...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Collection: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 objectś⁰₄paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc.́⁰₄became 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 genreś⁰₄artefacts 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474413480 147441348X 9781474413497 1474413498 |