The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199545812 ISBN 13: 9780199545810

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The first full study of the role of "little magazines" and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism in America. A major scholarly achievement of immense value to teachers, researchers, and students interested in the material culture of the 20th century and the relation of the arts to modernity.

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About the Author

Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film and Media, the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on contemporary writing, theory, and film is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics, New York Fictions, Modernity and Metropolis, Bohemia in London and A Glossary of Cultural Theory. He has co-edited The Geographies of Modernism and was co-director of the AHRC funded Modernist Magazine Project. Most recently he is co-editor of Volumes I through III of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines and of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. He was a Professorial Fellow at the Center for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham. He has served since 2005 as Chair of the Raymond Williams Society.

Andrew Thacker is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University and previously taught at De Montfort University. He co-founded the Northern Modernism seminar and is an editor of the journal Literature & History. He has published widely upon modernism, including Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism, The Imagist Poets, and the co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. He is currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199545812
• ISBN 13: 9780199545810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1112
• Editor: Brooker Peter, Thacker Andrew