Modernity and the Periodical Press : : Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avant-Gardes, 1880-1920 /

Modernity and the Periodical Press : : Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avant-Gardes, 1880-1920 / / edited by Felix Brinker and Ruth Mayer.

This book explores the role of periodicals in the negotiation of modernity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and considers diverse materials from both sides of the Atlantic, including modernist magazines, advertising campaigns, comics, and scrapbooks.

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Studies in Periodical Cultures ; 2
TeilnehmendeR:
Mayer, Ruth,
Brinker, Felix,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Periodical Cultures ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (267 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Fleeting, Fast, and Everywhere: An Introduction to Periodical Modernity
  • Keywords
  • Acknowledgements
  • Works Cited
  • 2 Engineered Desire: The Smart Set, Mass Culture, and the Dispositif of Distraction
  • Keywords
  • 1 Distraction, Concentration: Mass Culture's Agency
  • 2 Multiplying Effects: The Smart Set
  • 3 Coda: Mass Culture's Gender
  • Works Cited
  • 3 Strolling the Page: The Flâneur Aesthetic of M'lle New York
  • Keywords
  • 1 Strolling the Page: Periodicals and the Flâneur
  • 2 "More Parisian than Paris": M'lle New York, the French Avant-garde, and the Sexual Politics of Print Flânerie
  • 3 A Flâneur's Tour of M'lle New York
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 4 Montages of Modernity
  • Keywords
  • 1 At the Cinema: Max Brod's "Kinematographentheater"
  • 2 At the Cinema II: Jakob van Hoddis "Kinematograph" and the Fragmentation of Experience
  • 3 In the Magazine
  • 4 The Art of Montage: Gottfried Benn's Poster
  • 5 The Montage of Art: Gottfried Benn's Poster in Die Aktion
  • 5 Headlines for the Avant-gardes: Mina Loy, Filippo Marinetti, and Kurt Schwitters
  • Keywords
  • 1 Marinetti, Loy, and Schwitters between Network Production and Global Announcements
  • 2 Marinetti's Manifesto-Media Campaign: Two Different Audiences
  • 3 Looking for the Modern Woman: Mina Loy in the New York Dailies
  • 4 Old Paper, New Material: Kurt Schwitters' MERZ, "Anna Blume," and Re-cycling the Periodical
  • 6 Scrapped: Fragments of Modernity in the Little Magazine Close Up and H.D.'s Scrapbook
  • Keywords
  • 1 Little Magazines and Scrapbooks
  • 2 Close Up and H.D.'s Scrapbook
  • 3 Conclusion
  • 7 In and out of the Loop: American Scrapbooks, Print Capitalism, and the Rise of Modernity
  • Keywords
  • 1 Toward the Scrap
  • 2 Distribution, Disruption and Discarding
  • 3 Houdini's Scrapbooks.
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 8 The Perils of Print: Twentieth-Century Media Modernity and the Pauline Serial
  • Keywords
  • 1 Layered Texts
  • 2 Film/Newspaper
  • 3 Plots/Novels/Poetry
  • 4 Scheduling/Moderating
  • 5 High/Low
  • 9 From the Christian Oracle to the Christian Century: Avant-garde Preaching
  • Keywords
  • 1 From the Christian Oracle to the Christian Century
  • 2 Between the Elite and the Masses
  • 3 Avant-garde Preaching, Liberalism, and American Literature
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 10 The Brownies and St. Nicholas: Agents of Modernity and Modern Childhood?
  • Keywords
  • 1 Entering the Marketplace: St. Nicholas
  • 2 The Brownies and/in Modernized, Industrialized America
  • 3 In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Brownies and The Brownies' Book
  • 11 It Floats: Alice Beach Winter's Visual Narratives of Mother
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • 1 Progressive Reform: It Floats
  • 2 The "Weekly Function" of Cleaning the Child
  • 3 Educated Mothers, Clean Children?
  • 4 Cleanliness, Class, and the Child: Complications and Contradictions
  • 5 Beyond Soap: An Artist's Attempts to Clean Up Child Labor
  • 12 Telephonic Time(s), 1910-1918: AT&amp
  • T, Periodical Advertisements, and Managerialist Modernity
  • Keywords
  • 1 AT&amp
  • T, Serial Print Advertising and Periodical Time
  • 2 Periodical Pasts and the Telephonic Present
  • 3 Conclusion
  • 13 Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland and the Times of Newspaper Comics, 1905-06
  • Keywords
  • 1 Comic Supplements, Social Time and Periodical Publication
  • 2 Narrative Time and Social Time in Little Nemo, 1905-06
  • 3 Reading Time, 'Slow Form,' and Nemo after 1905-06
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Index.

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