Modern Print Artefacts Textual Materiality And Literary Value In British Print Culture 18901930s Patrick Collier by Patrick Collier 9781474413473, 1474413471 instant download after payment.

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 objects - paper quality, typography, spatial layout, use of illustrations, etc. - became uniquelyvisible 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 genres - artefacts that gaveform 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 thedefault mode of reading, and that experimental modernism was the sole literary aesthetic that could usefully represent modern life.