Publishing place : transatlantic modernity and periodical culture on Canada's East Coast / Billy Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Billy (Lecturer in English literature and Canadian studies), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Atlantic Provinces--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Literature publishing--Atlantic Provinces--History.

Literature publishing.

Periodicals--Publishing--Atlantic Provinces--History.

Periodicals.

Canadian periodicals--Atlantic Provinces--History.

Canadian periodicals.

Culture in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Atlantic Provinces--In literature.

Atlantic Provinces.

Atlantic Provinces--Intellectual life.

Canadian periodicals--History.

Publishers and publishing--History.

Eastern Canada.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The 1917 Halifax Explosion all but destroyed a thriving book-publishing industry centred in Halifax and Saint John. In the wake of the devastation, dozens of periodicals emerged in its place, reshaping the social, cultural, and political landscape across the east coast and sparking literary and political discussions that reached beyond the space levelled by the catastrophe. Publishing Place is both a critical study of periodical form and a cultural history of publishing on the east coast between 1895 and 1935. Billy Johnson examines representative examples - cultural magazines such as Acadiensis, radical publications including the Black-nationalist magazine Neith, and the socialist weekly Maritime Labour Herald - arguing that these periodicals constituted a distinct genre in which literary expression was able to mould collective identities. More than any other medium, periodicals provided writers with a forum to discuss, debate, and create, thus voicing emergent conceptions of place, region, and nation. Johnson's rediscovery of these periodicals fills in a missing chapter of Canadian literature; he also explores their contributions to major intellectual and philosophical movements such as interwar liberalism, socialist feminism, Black nationalism, and regionalism. East coast periodicals were deeply embedded in the global flows of twentieth-century modernity. Publishing Place demonstrates that they were archetypes for how new ideas of place and identity circulated in print beyond Canada's urban centres."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Construction of Region in Fin-de-Siècle Magazines

Post-Race, Afromodernism, and Abraham Beverly Walker's Neith

Culture in a Crisis: Cultural History and East Coast Literature Between the Wars

Liberal Fantasy, Populist Appeal: Will R. Bird's War Fiction and The Busy East of Canada

Left Transnationalism, Socialist Feminism, and The Maritime Labor Herald.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johnson, Billy (Lecturer in English literature and Canadian studies) Publishing place.

ISBN:

0228025893

9780228025894

OCLC:

1502744965

Publisher Number:

CIPO000295677