Research Guides: Modernist Writers in Special Collections: Writing about the Modernists

Writing about the Modernists

Below is a selection of works about modernist writers and the small and fine presses that operated during the modernist period

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37Z525
Publication Date: 1964
New York, Scribner [1964]
Women of the Left Bank by Shari Benstock
Call Number: PS151.B46 1986
Publication Date: 1986
Refiguring Modernism by Bonnie Kime Scott
Call Number: PR888.M63S43 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1995.
Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes by Phillip Herring
Call Number: PS3503.A614Z68 1995
Publication Date: 1995
New York: Viking, 1995.
Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicle of a Modern Women by Katherine Anne Porter
Call Number: PS3531.O752Z48 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2012.
South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History by Janis P. Stout
Call Number: PS3531.O752Z816 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2013.
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
Call Number: PR6019.O9U6257 2014
Publication Date: 2014
New York: The Penguin Press, 2014.
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Call Number: PS3503.A614Z93 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Edited by Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz
University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Call Number: Z305.B32
Publication Date: 1959
New York, Harcourt, Brace [1959]
These Were the Hours: Memories of My Hours Press, Reanville and Paris, 1928-1931 by Nancy Cunard
Call Number: Z232.H83C8
Publication Date: 1969
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1969]
The Dun Emer Press: Later the Cuala Press: With a List of the Books, Broadsides and Other Pieces Printed at the Press by Liam Miller
Call Number: Z232.C8M5 1974
Publication Date: 1974
New York: Typophiles, 1974.
Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 by Hugh D. Ford
Call Number: PS129.F6
Publication Date: 1975
New York: Macmillan, [1975]
Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
Call Number: Z305.S452S53 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Edited by Krista Halverson
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [2016]