In this work, Earle (English, U. of West Florida) is "re-covering" literary modernism in that he is seeking to place it back into the context of the popular fiction and reprint magazines of the teens and 1920s, interwar pulp magazines, and 1940s and 1950s paperbacks wherein much of it first appeared. Over the course of the work he offers a case study of the magazine The Smart Set, edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, as a neglected venue for (what is now canonical) modernism; examines how key themes and concerns of modernism often appeared in similar fashion within the pages of the interwar pulp magazines; and describes the role of sensationalism in high-modernism as an entry point for a popular audience in the late-1940s and 1950s, particularly within case studies of elements of violent and sexual sensationalism, economic patronage, commercial pandering, and intrinsic visuality in William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)