TY - BOOK ID - 78071312 TI - Women editing modernism PY - 2015 SN - 0813149282 9780813149288 1322596395 9781322596396 0813119375 9780813119373 0813184363 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Women editors KW - Little magazines KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - English literature KW - Literature publishing KW - Literature, Experimental KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - American literature KW - Editors KW - Small magazines KW - Periodicals KW - Aesthetics KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Literary publishing KW - Literature KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Avant-garde literature KW - Experimental literature KW - Literary style KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Publishing KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071312 AB - For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as ""little"" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Marek examines the work of seven women editors -- Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret An ER -