Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine

Examines Marianne Moore’s editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929
As editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazines have largely overlooked her editorial influence. Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine makes visible Moore’s contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency. It explores the public fac...