Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel

This dissertation uses the methodological lens of book history to re-examine the role of the literary market in the construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to create their literary reputations through their success in commercial publishing, and how later critics and scholars read, interpreted, and re-inscribed those attempts. Specifically, I interrogate the underpinnings of a narrative of modernist production based upon the essential differences between modernism and mass culture by resituating it within the cultural history of the production and circulation of books in the U.S.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2010

Author dc:creator

• Dunick, Lisa M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Foote, Stephanie
• Parker, Robert D.
• Rothberg, Michael
• Marsh, John E.

• Modernism
• Book History
• Ernest Hemingway
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Kay Boyle
• Caresse Crosby
• Black Sun Press
• Authorship

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2010 Lisa M.S. Dunick

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15559

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/15559