Decadence and Institutions of Modernism in the American Literary Field of the 1910s and 1920s
This chapter examines the tensions between ‘make it new’ modernists and ‘decadent modernists’. These tensions are traced through a detailed account of the institutions of publishing in Britain and American. Attention is given to the elaborately decorated books associated with fin-de-siècle culture. Evidence is also provided to show that at this time it was decadent writers who were enjoying greater success, in terms of book sales, than modernists.
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Vol 10
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pp. 141-161
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