American little magazines of the Fin de Siècle : art, protest, and cultural transformation / Kirsten MacLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLeod, Kirsten, 1969- author.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Little magazines--United States--History--19th century.

Little magazines.

Little magazines--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Social aspects.

History.

United States.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Social, Media, and Little Magazine Contexts

1 The Social and Cultural Formation of the Little Magazinist 25

2 Print Revolutions and the Making of the Little Magazine 57

3 The Big Little Magazines and the Evolution of the Genre 113

Part 2 Inside the Magazines

4 Fiction: "Literature Staggering Blindfold" 153

5 Poetry: "Literature on a Drunken Spree" 188

6 Visual Art: "Art Running Amuck through Posterdom" 213

7 Literary Criticism and Editorials: "Every Dog Having His Day in Journalism" 243

8 Social and Political Commentary: "Finding Fault with Things as They Are" 268

9 Sayings: The Short and Shorter of It 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-438) and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy has dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781442643161

1442643161

OCLC:

981158854

Publisher Number:

99976155947