Modernist Lives

Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Claire Battershill, Canada) Battershill, Dr Claire (Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Erik Tonning

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Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire 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 composition to their reception by readers and critics.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-04-05
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistoricizing Modernism
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350043817

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Claire Battershill is Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Circus (2014); co-author (with Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Michael Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, and Nicola Wilson) of Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities (2017); and co-author (with Shawna Ross) of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Introduction1. What the Hogarth Press Published (1917-1946)a. Beyond Bloomsburyb. Quantifying the Publisher's Listc. Types of Books2. Life Before "The New Biography": The Hogarth Press "Books on Tolstoi" 1920-1924a. 'Carelessly Jotted Down': Maxim Gorky's Biographical Methodb. The Autobiography of Countess Sophia Tolstoyc. Tolstoi's Love Letters3. Debates About Biography and Autobiographya. What Was "New" About the "New Biography"?b. Leonard Woolf and the Value of True Storiesc. The Development of English Biographyd. Harold Nicolson and the Hogarth Press4. Marketing, Seriousness and Invention: Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940)a. "No One Wants Biography": Classifying Orlandob. "Not a Poet But a Red Cocker Spaniel": Flush and the Problem of Seriousnessc. Moments of Being in Roger Fry 5. The Hogarth Press Biography Series (1934-1937)a. Autobiografictionb. John Lehmann and the New Face of the Hogarth Press c. "Everyone Must Be His Own Guinea-Pig": Christopher Isherwood's Lions and Shadowsd. Fears of Libel and the Publishing of Goodbye to Berline. "A Long Intimacy Between Strangers": Henry Green's Pack My BagConclusionAppendices:A. List of Biographies and Autobiographies and Genre CategorizationsB. List Prices, Sales Figures for the First Six Months, Print Run Numbers and Profit and Loss FiguresC. Profits and Losses By GenreBibliographyIndex

Claire Battershill’s groundbreaking Modernist Lives offers an exciting new approach to Woolf’s writing on biography, to the shaping effects of her reading and writing on the study of modernist life writing, and to the place of life writing in the landscape of modernist publishing, reading, and reviewing ... Modernist Lives is essential reading not only for those working in modernist studies but for the fields of life writing, archive studies, and publishing history.