{"product_id":"hustlers-in-the-ivory-tower-max-mcguinness-9781802074734","title":"Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn French literature, newspapers have typically had bad press. Throughout the nineteenth century, French poets and novelists depicted the rapid growth of the press as a corrupting behemoth that was swallowing up art and culture. And yet, towards the end of the century, some writers began to take a more ambivalent approach, pivoting between antipathy and enthusiasm for what had become a massified and ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. 'No-one truly escapes from journalism, ' as Stéphane Mallarmé put it. Rather than cut themselves off from 'universal \u003cem\u003ereportage\u003c\/em\u003e', he and other leading modernists, including Guillaume Apollinaire and Marcel Proust, came to view newspapers as an essential forum for literary experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHustlers in the Ivory Tower\u003c\/em\u003e explores how the French modernists used newspapers and large-circulation magazines as a 'literary laboratory' by publishing poetry and imaginative prose in their pages. Drawing on extensive documentary research, this book looks behind the scenes at wrangling and wheeling-dealing between authors, editors, and publishers that drove the rise of modernist literature in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese interactions with the press yielded nuanced, self-conscious portrayals of the tensions between journalism and literature in works of modernist poetry and prose that confront their own journalistic hinterland in unprecedented depth. At once a model and a foil, the newspaper emerges in \u003cem\u003eHustlers in the Ivory Tower\u003c\/em\u003e as the locus of French literature's broader struggle to come to terms with modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max McGuinness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802074732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802074734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Max McGuinness","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45180626600191,"sku":"9781802074734","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d91dc206-1c0b-4d08-aef7-c7662d07cd3f.jpg?v=1712898289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hustlers-in-the-ivory-tower-max-mcguinness-9781802074734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}