This is critical reading, thinking, and writing of the highest order. It is a book of many pleasures, in which an earlier and more self-serious period in literary history is read with a foreknowledge of the phantasmagoria of contemporary media culture. The authors treated emerge as even more interesting figures than we knew them to be. A major achievement of ... Read morescholarship on American literary modernism.
Mark McGurl, University of California, Los Angeles, author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing Theoretically sophisticated and well researched this volume includes 44 illustrations that beautifully evidence the technological and cultural developments that affected modernists, thus showing how mediums became their message. Choice Show Less