{"product_id":"hustlers-in-the-ivory-tower-press-and-modernism-from-mallarmzs-to-proust-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 St?phane Mallarm? 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax McGuinness is a Teaching Fellow in French at Trinity College Dublin and a theatre critic for The Financial Times.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725999673618,"sku":"9781802074734","price":175.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_972f8228-ce45-4360-8c39-aa0d7a89c0b8.jpg?v=1734849637","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hustlers-in-the-ivory-tower-press-and-modernism-from-mallarmzs-to-proust-9781802074734","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}