Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry.

Bearing in mind the rich body of work upon which the collection builds, the claims that this is "the first edited collection on book publishers that sold modernist texts to a wide range of readers across the Atlantic and elsewhere" or indeed that "publishers are nearly invisible in New Modernist Studies" are a little disingenuous (2). This backs up Jaillant's introduction, addressing how the Woolfs' publishing house "is really the only modernist publishing house to have received a thorough "material modernism" treatment by a variety of scholars" (71). "Few scholars and students of literature pay attention to book publishers", Jaillant argues in her polemical opening (1). [Extracted from the article]