This book intervenes in a lively ongoing conversation about the links between literature and mass culture and makes an important contribution by taking up French modernism's complex relationship to the newspaper.'
Catherine Talley 'In this ambitious and accomplished survey, Max McGuinness addresses the tensions embodied within the emerging civilization du journal, in which writers who increasingly depended on newspapers nonetheless railed against their corrupting influence on their pages ... It is an incisive work of criticism, exploring a state of affairs that feels particularly relevant in our post-digital world.' Lisa Hilton, Times Literary Supplement Max McGuinness, in artful and winning prose, explores how this change came about, focusing on Stephané Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Marcel Proust as his primary hustlers looking for a bigger audience. The author illuminates this relation amour-haine with panache. Jim Kelly, Airmail Cet ouvrage, remarquablement documenté et agrémenté dune quinzaine dillustrations, offre [ ...] un tour complet des rapports complexes quont entretenus la presse et la littérature à lépoque où celle-ci entrait dans lère moderne.
This work, remarkably well researched and enlivened with around fifteen illustrations, offers a complete overview of the complex relations between press and literature at the point when the latter was entering the modern era. -- Pascal Ifri * Nineteenth Century French Studies * [ Si Mallarmé, Apollinaire et Proust] sont des hustlers dans leur tour divoire, cest quils partagent la même haute idée de la littérature tout en utilisant les outils de la modernité et notamment la presse pour expérimenter, exposer leurs idées et se faire connaître. Cest ce que montre brillamment cet ouvrage qui est une version remaniée dune thèse de doctorat.
Brilliantly shows [ ] how Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Proust shared the same lofty idea of literature while using the tools of modernity, particularly the press, to experiment, to present their ideas, and to make a name for themselves -- Pascal Ifri * Nineteenth Century French Studies *
