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Modernism, Magazines, and the British avant-garde
This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period, how, where, and under whose terms the avant-garde in Britain would be constructed and consumed were very much to play for. It is the first study to look in detail at two little magazines marginalised from many accounts of this competitive process: Rhythm and the Blue Review. By thoroughly examining not only the content but the interrelated networks that defined and surrounded these publications, Faith Binckes aims to provide a fresh and challenging perspective to the on-going reappraisal of modernism. Founded in 1911, and edited by John Middleton Murry with ass...
Streetcorners
Francis Carco began life as a libertine youth on the streets of Southern France. Moving to Paris in 1910, he began to write and produced Instincts, from which most of the works in this volume are taken. Carco soon became the personification of a Bohemian, abusing his body with ether, opium and cocaine, and mixing with writers and artists such as Colette, Modigliani and Picasso. His writings on Paris street life were to set the standard for the tradition of fiction, photography and films that represented Montmartre life in the early 20th century.
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