Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

Helen Southworth

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2010

Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

Helen Southworth

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748643684

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This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial choices on writing and culture. Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, the chapters weave together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the press following a 'rich, dialogic' forum or network.

The book brings together a wide range of thematic material in three sections - 'Class and Culture', 'Global Bloomsbury' and 'Marketing Other Modernisms'. Topics addressed in the book include imperialism, the middlebrow, religion, translation, the marketplace and poetry, with case studies on West Indian writer C.L.R. James, Welsh poet Huw Menai, child poet Joan Easdale and American artist E. McKnight Kauffer. This original collection will contribute to three vibrant sub-fields now remaking twentieth-century scholarship: print culture, modernist studies, and Woolf studies.

* A significant intervention in current debates on theorising and contextualising modernism
* Presents neglected writers for fresh study by drawing on established Hogarth Press and author-specific archives
* Provides a new view of the Woolfs' achievements as publishers
* Sets the agenda for further scholarship in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
A Hogarth Press Timeline Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Helen Southworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Class and Culture
1. ‘W. H. Day Spender’ Had a Sister: Joan Adeney Easdale Mark Hussey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. The Middlebrows of the Hogarth Press: Rose Macaulay, E. M. Delafi eld and Cultural Hierarchies in Interwar Britain Melissa Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. ‘Woolfs’ in Sheep’s Clothing: the Hogarth Press and ‘Religion’ Diane F. Gillespie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
PART TWO. Global Bloomsbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
4. The Hogarth Press and Networks of Anti-Colonialism Anna Snaith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. William Plomer, Transnational Modernism and the Hogarth Press John K. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
6. The Writer, the Prince and the Scholar: Virginia Woolf, D. S. Mirsky, and Jane Harrison’s Translation from Russian of The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, by Himself – a Revaluation of the Radical Politics of the Hogarth Press Jean Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
PART THREE. Marketing Other Modernisms
7. On or About December 1928 the Hogarth Press Changed: E. McKnight Kauffer, Art, Markets and the Hogarth Press 1928–39 Elizabeth Willson Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
8. ‘Going Over’: The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and Working- Class Voices Helen Southworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
9. ‘Oh Lord what it is to publish a best seller’: The Woolfs’ Professional Relationship with Vita Sackville-West Stephen Barkway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Appendix. The Hogarth Press: Vita Sackville- West’s Publications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 13 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: October 19, 2010
ISBN: 9780748643684