Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens to the world but, as Eric Bulson shows in Little Magazine, World Form, their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the development of literature and criticism in Africa, the West Indies, the Pacific Rim, and South America.

In addition to identifying how these circulations and exchanges worked, Bulson also addresses equally formative moments of disconnection and immobility. British and American writers who fled to Europe to escape Anglo-American provincialism, refugees from fascism, wandering surrealists, and displaced communists all contributed to the proliferation of print. Yet the little magazine was equally crucial to literary production and consumption in the postcolonial world, where it helped connect newly independent African nations. Bulson concludes with reflections on the digitization of these defunct little magazines and what it means for our ongoing desire to understand modernism's global dimensions in the past and its digital afterlife.

"Bulson’s important new book Little Magazine, World Form is an account of what the magazine medium has meant to literary communities in very different historical, social, and cultural contexts." - Times Literary Supplement

"Little Magazine, World Form is a brilliant book, each page sparkling with multiple insights about modernist magazines. . . . Beautifully written and a joy to read." - Modernism/modernity

"Eric Bulson’s Little Magazine, World Form delivers an exceptionally thorough and noteworthy understanding of how little magazines worked." - Publishing Research Quarterly

"A solid contribution to scholarship on little magazines, Little Magazine, World Form revisits and delves into the international nature of this literary genre." - Choice

"In this fascinating and paradigm-shifting book, Bulson considers the littleness of the modernist magazine on a global scale." - Journal of European Periodical Studies

"Little Magazine, World Form is unquestionably an important book for anyone interested in periodical studies and in larger debates about how magazines created—or failed to create—something called global modernism." - Literature & History

"Little Magazine, World Form is a major work of scholarship, sure to stand as a lasting contribution." - Comparative Literature