Lise (University in Leipzig, Germany) Jaillant 
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon 
The Modern Library Series, 1917 1955

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism”s influence as a literary movement.