Patrick Collier

I read this for the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. It's exceptional work and was shortlisted for the prize.

Modern Print Artefacts delivers a rich rethinking of the materiality of texts, resonantly and emphatically turning attention to the physical artefact from a broader modernism of periodicals yet demanding changes to what modernist studies means by “periodical studies.” The study relentlessly uncovers the importance of the material production of modernist works and show more print cultures even and especially where this dogs the comfortable assumptions of the field. In its conclusions, it offers a disciplinary reach across the field to ask how such discussions are limited or relegated to peripheral disciplinary venues. The polemic is demanding for modernist studies and urgently calls for both scholarly and professional soul searching, while at the same time the archival and critical investigations offered here give readers meaningful anchors in the material history of modernism. show less