Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955
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- Oxford Routledge 20151006
- 224 p
In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.