Women Editing Modernism: Little Magazines and Literary History - Paperback

by Jayne Marek (Author)

For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as "little" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Mar

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This important book, long overdue, offers an indispensable introduction to the formative role of women editors. These women had a profound influence that has been largely overlooked by literary historians.

Author Biography

Jayne Marek is associate professor of English at Franklin College.