Taking their cue from the recommendation systems of Amazon and Netflix, which use
networks of like-minded customers to suggest new titles to users, the authors investigate
how networks in little magazines a hundred years ago helped readers navigate an
overloaded literary market by recommending to them a taste for modernism. Focusing on
The Freewoman, The New Freewoman and The Egoist—and drawing on data generated by
the Modernist Journals Project—this essay shows how authors in these magazines' review …