Lise Jaillant, Cheap Modernism. Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde

Abstract

Taking her cue from such scholars as Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, Patrick Collier or Ann Ardis who claims that modernism emerged ‘in a publishing ecosystem that was far richer, and far more complexly diversified, than the first several generations of bibliographic scholarship on modernism recognized’, Lise Jaillant explores the publishing context of modernist texts, focusing on reprint series. She thus aims at remapping the landscape of early twentieth-century print culture, which has so...