In this illuminating study, Amanda Sigler brilliantly demonstrates the value of studying Victorian and modernist texts in the journals and little magazines that first serialised them. Startlingly, she proves that chance, not authorial autonomy, initially coloured works that later seemed sacrosanct.

Anne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland

Examining the control authors ceded to collaborative editorial and production processes and reader feedback, Sigler's meticulously researched book highlights the distinct role magazine serial publication played in making European modernism part of American culture. A major contribution to modernist and periodical studies both, and a clarion call to bring periodical archives into the modernism classroom.

Mark S. Morrisson, Professor and Head of English, Penn State University, USA

Sigler's study is a stimulating addition to the critical literature on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century periodicals.

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