‘Hand & Soul’: The Fin de Siècle Sociopoetics of Way & Williams and the Auvergne Press

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Saper C. (2020) ‘Hand & Soul’: The Fin de Siècle Sociopoetics of Way & Williams and the Auvergne Press. In: Colby G., Marczewska K., Wilson L. (eds) The Contemporary Small Press. New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48784-3_2

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This chapter looks at two small presses in Chicago in the late nineteenth century in terms of how their organizational infrastructure impacted the aesthetics and literary qualities of the books published. Way & Williams and the Auvergne Press became international forums for authors, artists and designers. The working methods of these publishers influenced modernist aesthetics in ways not always fully recognized as they implicitly proposed a radical libertine alternative to stiff-collared media empires of the time. This chapter sets out the contexts, methods and practices of two historical small presses that have not yet been covered by work on the modernist small press but which have significant implications for the practice and analysis of today’s small presses.