On Company Time : American Modernism in the Big Magazines /

American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, J...

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Main Author: Harris, Donal (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2016
Series:Modernist Latitudes
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Authors and publishers > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Periodicals > Publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
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ISBN:9780231541343
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Making Modernism Big
  • 1. Willa Cather's Promiscuous Fiction
  • 2. Printing the Color Line in The Crisis
  • 3. On the Clock: Rewriting Literary Work at Time Inc.
  • 4. Our Eliot: Mass Modernism and the American Century
  • 5. Hemingway's Disappearing Style
  • Afterword: Working from Home
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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