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Blurring the boundaries: Fourteen great detective stories and Joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man in the modern library series

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posted on 2016-03-11, 14:21 authored by Lise JaillantLise Jaillant
This article examines the simultaneous publication of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and a collection of detective stories in the Modern Library series in March 1928. The Modern Library, a uniform series of reprints sold for only 95 cents, did not make any difference between the two books. Not only did they share a similar physical format, but they were also advertised in the same periodicals, and reviewers showed no surprise at the juxtaposition of “high” and “low” culture. Drawing on extensive research in Random House archives at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this essay uses a book-history approach to show that the Modern Library contributed to the blurring of boundaries between modernist and popular fiction.

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  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • English and Drama

Published in

James Joyce Quarterly

Volume

50

Issue

3

Pages

767 - 796

Citation

JAILLANT, L., 2013. Blurring the boundaries: Fourteen great detective stories and Joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man in the modern library series. James Joyce Quarterly, 50(3), pp. 767-796.

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© University of Tulsa

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This paper was published in the journal James Joyce Quarterly and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2013.0007.

ISSN

0021-4183

eISSN

1938-6036

Language

  • en

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