Motivations for Patronage: Early Modernist Literature as a Case Study

Walter R. Crozier
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Walter R. Crozier: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies, 2022, vol. 1, issue 6, 41-51

Abstract: Patronage of early modernist English-language writers is investigated, drawing upon biographical source material. The process of identifying patrons started with Imagist poets in the first decades of the twentieth century followed by a search for their social connections with fellow writers and patrons. Fifteen patrons were identified who brought new money into the network of connections, twelve of them women. Analysis of their personal characteristics reveals a distinctive pattern of substantial, inherited financial resources, education, literary interests and unorthodox lifestyle, notably for the women in the sample. Explanations of motivation in terms of social identity, gift exchange and co-creation are discussed.

Keywords: avant-garde; lite.rature; modernism; patronage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.50

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