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Here is a wonder of a book: a new story about how modernism came to be. If you want such a story with some hilarious pictures and anecdotes of dim-witted critics raving against modernism, you'll find that here. More importantly, you find these details woven into a rich and complex narrative that reveals the mechanics of that remarkable cultural and aesthetic change we now call modernism. * Jayme Stayer, Review of English Studies * This monograph seems deeply relevant not only to contemporary scholarship but to contemporary life more broadly. * Sunny Stalter-Pace, Auburn University, Modernism/modernity * Here is a wonder of a book: a new story about how modernism came to be. * Jayme Stayer, The Review of English Studies *

Here is a wonder of a book: a new story about how modernism came to be. If you want such a story with some hilarious pictures and anecdotes of dim-witted critics raving against modernism, you'll find that here. More importantly, you find these details woven into a rich and complex narrative that reveals the mechanics of that remarkable cultural and aesthetic change we now call modernism. * Jayme Stayer, Review of English Studies *

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Leonard Diepeveen is the George Munro Professor of Literature and Rhetoric at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Difficulties of Modernism (Routledge, 2003) and Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935 (Toronto 2014). He is also co-author, with Timothy van Laar, of Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (Oxford, 2013). His edition of Tender Buttons was published by Broadview Press in 2018.

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