Cheap modernism: expanding markets, publishers'series, and the avant-garde,

摘要

Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series, and the Avant-Garde depicts how modernism moved from 'highbrow movement into a mainstream phenomenon' owing to publishers' series; cheap reprints that flourished between the turn of the century and the 1930s. Along the way, author Lise Jaillant, a lecturer at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, discusses how series editors designed their books to encourage collection and display. Jaillant's primary contribution is not expanding the pool of editions by canonical authors that modernist studies should consider - which she does do, and well - but rather how effectively she reveals the aspirations of the readers to whom these books are marketed: those eager to acquire the signs of cultural capital' (p. 87) as long as they did not have to spend 'too much money' (p. 126). In this sense, Cheap Modernisms contribution is a continuation of the interests Jaillant set out in her previous book.