American Little Magazines of the Fin De Siecle - Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation

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.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION -- Reviving the American Little Magazines of the 1890s
PART 1: SOCIAL, MEDIA, AND LITTLE MAGAZINE CONTEXTS
CHAPTER 1 -- The Social and Cultural Formation of the Little Magazinist
CHAPTER 2 -- Print Revolutions and the Making of the Little Magazine
CHAPTER 3 -- The Big Little Magazines and the Evolution of the Genre
PART 2: INSIDE THE MAGAZINES
CHAPTER 4 -- Fiction: "Literature Staggering Blindfold"
CHAPTER 5 -- Poetry: "Literature on "a Drunken Spree"
CHAPTER 6 -- Visual Art: "Art Running Amuck through Posterdom"
CHAPTER 7 -- Literary Criticism and Editorials:
"Every Dog Having His Day in Journalism"
CHAPTER 8 -- Social and Political Commentary:
"Finding Fault with Things as They Are"
CHAPTER 9: Sayings: The Short and Shorter of It
AFTERWORD: Little Magazines, Not So Little After All?
APPENDIX A: UPDATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITTLE MAGAZINES OF THE 1890S
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the author

By Kirsten MacLeod

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten MacLeod
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781442643161
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4316-1
• No. of pages: 508
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries