Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture

Exploring the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, this book traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw in Colliers (1898), Rudyard Kiplings Kim in McClures and Cassells (1900-1901), James Joyces Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in the Dial (1923). These periodicalswhether mass-market journals or literary magazinesadjust our perceptions of authors elsewhere known to be in charge and reveal the central role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism. Bringing to light new research from multiple archives, Sigler pieces together original records of journals advertising strategies, previously unpublished editorial correspondence, and long-buried letters to unearth the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know so well.