The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop: Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

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Huw Osborne Professor Ann R. Hawkins

The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop

Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

Huw Osborne, Professor Ann R. Hawkins, Professor Maura Ives

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English

Routledge
28 July 2015

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Economic history; Publishing industry

Series: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show, these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors, their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores, online shopping, and ebooks, we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture, this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century.

By: Huw Osborne
Series edited by: Professor Ann R. Hawkins, Professor Maura Ives
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781472446992
ISBN 10: 1472446992
Series: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 28 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Huw Osborne is Associate Professor of English at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Reviews for The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop: Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

'Informed by impressive archival work, the essays in this collection all demonstrate that the roles played by independent bookstores extend well beyond that of middleman and are, in fact, those of active producers of literary texts and literary culture. Scholars and students of print culture, modernist literature, book history, and even periodical studies, will find this volume compelling and important.' Mark S. Morrisson, The Pennsylvania State University, USA 'This brilliant collection of essays pioneers research into one of the most neglected, but important, institutions of modernism: the bookshop. The fascinating essays here reveal the full significance of the bookshop as a space for disseminating modernism and show how bookshops, from New York to Paris, were often caught between the demands of commerce and culture. This stimulating book should be read by all those interested in understanding the relationship between modernism and its readership.' Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, UK