Reading 1922

"Excellent....Rightly challenges the common critical assertion, most influentially argued by Andreas Huyssen, that there is a deep antipathy between modernism and mass culture....A nuanced description of 1922 that deepens our understanding of the reception of modernism as a wider cultural movement expressed both in great works of literature and in a diverse set of contemporaneous cultural works."--Christianity and Literature "Well documented, nicely illustrated, and written in up-to-the-minute clinical language, this book is a smooth sail, recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."--Choice "Enlightening.... Making innovative use of material from such (apparently) diverse sources as anthropology, linguistics, travel literature and cinema, North's brisk but densely researched book moves engagingly around its central thesis: that later critics have slanted the reception history of modernism to fit into their own ideas of what it represented."--Times Literary Supplement "It is nevertheless surprising... just how much ground [North] is able to cover (and cover well) in under three hundred pages. The book opens with an excellent analysis of the significance of translation.... We could do worse than staving off the sleep of reason by immersing ourselves in Michael North's excellent--because critical--translation of the twentieth century."--Literary Research "North is inventive when developing the multiple junctures, as he put it, of the 'strategies of marketing' which helped sustain and expand the reading public's awareness of modernists like Eliot, Pound, and Joyce.... North is exuberant to read.... Bravo. Indeed."-- ames Joyce Literary Supplement