Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking modernism and the consumer culture
  • The market for modernism in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Maintaining highbrow standards : B.W. Huebsch opens the door to modern literature
  • Opening markets to modernism : Alfred Knopf's promotion of Thomas Mann in the 1920s
  • The "novel of ideas" meets the "overbright glare of publicity" : Alfred Harcourt and the American avant-garde
  • Changing American literary taste : Scribner's and Ernest Hemingway
  • How to enjoy James Joyce's great novel Ulysses.