Books by Lise Jaillant

The expansion of the readership for modernism was not only vertical but also spatial - since publisher's series were distributed within and outside metropolitan centres in Britain, continental Europe and elsewhere. Cheap Modernism will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit.

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series' mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.