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Modernist lives : biography and autobiography at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press

By: Battershill, Claire.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Historicizing modernism.Publisher: London, UK : Bloomsbury , 2018Description: 231 pages.ISBN: 9781350043817.Subject(s): Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 20th century | Modernism (Literature) | Biography as a literary formDDC classification: 070.509
Contents:
"Works of merit" : what the Hogarth Press published (1917-1946) -- "A Fig for literature! This is life": the Hogarth Press "Books on Tolstoi" 1920-1924 -- Elastic categories : debates about biography and autobiography (1923-1929) -- Marketing, seriousness, and invention : Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940) -- Tufty eyebrows and salty countenances : the Hogarth Press biography series (1934-1937) -- The reticent autobiografictions of Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood (1938-1940) -- The legacy of the Hogarth Press.
Summary: "Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press Business Archive and first editions from the Virginia Woolf Collection at the E. J. Pratt Library to show how the Woolfs' literary theories were expressed in all aspects of their publishing: their marketing strategies, editorial practice and the literary composition of their acquisitions. Featuring the works of figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Henry Green, Viola Tree, Vita Sackville-West and the Woolf's themselves, Battershill illuminates the history of Hogarth books from their initial solicitation to their reception by readers and critics"--
List(s) this item appears in: New 2017-18 (Fall & Winter)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Works of merit" : what the Hogarth Press published (1917-1946) -- "A Fig for literature! This is life": the Hogarth Press "Books on Tolstoi" 1920-1924 -- Elastic categories : debates about biography and autobiography (1923-1929) -- Marketing, seriousness, and invention : Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940) -- Tufty eyebrows and salty countenances : the Hogarth Press biography series (1934-1937) -- The reticent autobiografictions of Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood (1938-1940) -- The legacy of the Hogarth Press.

"Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press Business Archive and first editions from the Virginia Woolf Collection at the E. J. Pratt Library to show how the Woolfs' literary theories were expressed in all aspects of their publishing: their marketing strategies, editorial practice and the literary composition of their acquisitions. Featuring the works of figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Henry Green, Viola Tree, Vita Sackville-West and the Woolf's themselves, Battershill illuminates the history of Hogarth books from their initial solicitation to their reception by readers and critics"--

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