On company time : American modernism in the big magazines / Donal Harris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Willa Cather's promiscuous fiction -- Printing the color line in The Crisis -- On the clock: rewriting literary work at Time Inc. -- Our Eliot: mass modernism and the American century -- Hemingway's disappearing style.

"Starting in the 1890s, a growing number of writers found steady paychecks and regular publishing opportunities as editors and reporters at big magazines. Often privileging innovative style over late-breaking content, these magazines prized novelists and poets for their innovation and attention to literary craft. In recounting this history, On Company Time challenges the narrative of decline that often accompanies modernism's incorporation into midcentury middlebrow culture. Its integrated account of literary and journalistic form shows American modernism evolving within as opposed to against mass print culture. Harris's work also provides an understanding of modernism that extends beyond narratives centered on little magazines and other "institutions of modernism" that served narrow audiences. And for the writers, the "double life" of working for these magazines shaped modernism's literary form and created new models of authorship."--Publisher's description.

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