Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book. Focusing on Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven contributors from six countries demonstrate new developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism.

List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - List of Plates - Introduction - Acknowledgements - Henry James and the Economy of the Short Story; P.Horne - 'Playing at Treason with Miss Maud Gonne': Yeats and his Publishers in 1900; W.Gould - Marketing Modernism: How Conrad Prospered; C.Watts - Conrad, Curle and The Blue Peter; R.Hampson - D.H. Lawrence and the 'Expensive Edition Business'; J.Worthen - Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press; L.Marcus - T.S. Eliot and Ideas of Oeuvre; T.Sharpe - American Publishers and the Transmission of Eliot's Prose: A Sociology of English and American Editions; R.Schuchard - Joyce's Notebooks: Publicizing the Private Sphere of Writing; D.Ferrer - Towards a Textual Biography of The Cantos - R.Taylor - The Metamorphoses of Wyndham Lewis's The Human Age: Medium, Intertextuality, Genre; P.Caracciolo - Re-Covering Modernism: Form and Function in the Little Magazines; E.Bishop - Index