Title
Modernism Delayed, Not Denied: Wharton, Hemingway, and Scribner's Magazine
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Compares Scribner's 1922 serialization of Wharton's A Son at the Front with Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, published just seven years later. Covers each author's lengthy relationship with the esteemed publishing house, changes in readership, and Scribner's evolving role "first as protector of cultural conservatism and later as a purveyor of modernism" through actively recruiting new writers and carefully easing readers accustomed to realist texts into new forms of modernism. Examines Scribner's comprehensive approach to introducing and marketing A Farewell to Arms.
Published in
Date
2019
Pages
209-31
COinS
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.