London and the Modernist Bookshop (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

Matthew Chambers
Cambridge University Press, 5/14/2020
EAN 9781108708692, ISBN10: 1108708692

Paperback, 84 pages, 17.8 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.

1. Introduction. Modernist bookshops
2. Red Lion Square
3. 4 Parton Street
4. 2 Parton Street
5. 1 Parton Street and beyond.