Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture: 18951925

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Exploring the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, this book traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw in Colliers (1898), Rudyard Kiplings Kim in McClures and Cassells (1900-1901), James Joyces Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in the Dial (1923). These periodicalswhether mass-market journals or literary magazinesadjust our perceptions of authors elsewhere known to be in charge and reveal the central role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism. Bringing to light new research from multiple archives, Sigler pieces together original records of journals advertising strategies, previously unpublished editorial correspondence, and long-buried letters to unearth the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know so well.

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In this illuminating study, Amanda Sigler brilliantly demonstrates the value of studying Victorian and modernist texts in the journals and little magazines that first serialised them. Startlingly, she proves that chance, not authorial autonomy, initially coloured works that later seemed sacrosanct. * Anne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland *
Examining the control authors ceded to collaborative editorial and production processes and reader feedback, Siglers meticulously researched book highlights the distinct role magazine serial publication played in making European modernism part of American culture. A major contribution to modernist and periodical studies both, and a clarion call to bring periodical archives into the modernism classroom. * Mark S. Morrisson, Professor and Head of English, Penn State University, USA *

Author Bio

Amanda Sigler received her PhD from the University of Virginia before joining Baylor University, USA. She has published articles on Modernism, James Joyce, and periodicals in scholarly publications on both sides of the Atlantic. She wrote the chapter on modernist magazines for The Cambridge History of Modernism, edited by Vincent Sherry.