American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle : : Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation / / Kirsten MacLeod.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2018
• VerfasserIn: MacLeod, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.) :; 19 Colour Images

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form - the little magazine - and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the little magazine has long been regarded as the preserve of modernist avant-gardes and elite artistic coteries, for whom it served as a form of resistance to mass media, MacLeod's detailed study of its origins paints a different picture. Combining cultural, textual, literary, and media studies criticism, MacLeod demonstrates how the little magazine was deeply connected to the artistic, social, political, and cultural interests of a rising professional-managerial class. She offers a richly contextualized analysis of the little magazine's position in the broader media landscape: namely, its relationship to old and new media, including pre-industrial print forms, newspapers, mass-market magazines, fine press books, and posters. MacLeod's study challenges conventional understandings of the little magazine as a genre and emphasizes the power of "little" media in a mass-market context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reviving the American Little Magazines of the 1890s -- 1. The Social and Cultural Formation of the Little Magazinist -- 2. Print Revolutions and the Making of the Little Magazine -- 3. The Big Little Magazines and the Evolution of the Genre -- 4. Fiction: "Literature Staggering Blindfold" -- 5. Poetry: "Literature on 'a Drunken Spree'" -- 6. Visual Art: "Art Running Amuck through Posterdom" -- 7. Literary Criticism and Editorials: "Every Dog Having His Day in Journalism" -- 8. Social and Political Commentary: "Finding Fault with Things as They Are" -- 9. Sayings: The Short and Shorter of It -- Afterword: Little Magazines, Not So Little After All? -- Appendix: Updated Bibliography of American Little Magazines of the 1890s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index