From left to right: Sylvia Beach, in front of her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, 1919; a photograph of the new Shakespeare and Company; Adrienne Monnier inside her bookstore, La Maison des Amis des Livres.
This research guide will connect you to primary works, reference works, print books and e-books, databases for articles, and other information sources for an early 20th-century literary culture and circle in Paris that encompasses the Anglo-American Lost Generation and Great Depression writers.
"Stratford-on-Odeon" was an affectionate nickname by James Joyce, referring to the bookstore La Maison des Amis des Livres (established in 1915), to Shakespeare and Company (established in 1919), both of which are in rue de l'Odéon, as well as referencing William Shakespeare's place of origin, Stratford-upon-Avon. The name also refers to the literary circle, which mostly consisted of expat writers.
For more details on the modernist genre, visit the Gumberg Library's Guide on American Modernist Writers and British Modernist Writers.
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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
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The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s To 1950s
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This research guide was created by Agaretha Kosasih, English Department Intern, December 2024
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