London and the Modernist Bookshop

by Matthew Chambers

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108708692
• ISBN13: 9781108708692
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"