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With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research.
List of contents
Introduction
Tim Lanzendörfer Part 1: Theory 1. The Magazine in Theory
Patrick Collier 2. The Literary in Theory
Travis Kurowski 3. Nineteenth Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine
Graham Thompson 4. Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine
Matthew Pethers 5. Visuality in Literary Magazines
Vanessa Meikle Schulman 6. Materiality and the American Literary Magazine in the Nineteenth Century: At the Mercy of Logistics
Maya Merlob 7. Materiality in 20th and 21st Century Literary Magazines
Oliver Scheiding 8. Boundaries I: Comics and/as Literary Magazines: "Originally Published in Magazines"
Neale Barnholden 9. Boundaries II: Popular Fiction and Literary Magazines
David M. Earle 10. The Business of Literary Magazines in Nineteenth-Century America
Heather Haveman 11. Literary Magazines and the Challenge of the Digital
Seth Perlow Part 2: Regional and Historical Contexts 12. 18th Century British Literary Magazines
Jacob Sider Jost 13. Early American Literary Magazines
Tim Lanzendörfer 14. The Nineteenth-Century British Literary Magazine
Caley Ehnes 15. The Literary Magazine in Gilded Age America
Mark Noonan 16. Southern Regionalism in the United States
Keri Holt 17. Modernism and the Little Magazine
Victoria Bazin 18. Modernism and the Pulp Magazine
Andrew Ferguson 19. Modernism in the Middle Brow Magazine
Rachael Alexander 20. The African American Literary Magazine, Modernism and Beyond
Justin Gifford 21. Canadian Literary Magazines and the Growth of a National Literature
Hannah McGregor 22. The Political Face of Modernism: Re-Mapping Modernisms Across the Wartime Print Ecology
Christopher J. La Casse 23. 20th Century Science Fiction Magazines
Nathan Madison 24. 21st Century Little Magazines
Joanne Diaz and Ian Morris Part 3: Case Studies 25. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Tom Toremans and Ernest De Clerck 26. Graham's Magazine, Professional Authorship, and the Valuation of Literature
Adam Gordon 27. The Anglo-African Magazine: Black History as Literary Nexus
Cora Anthony 28. The Century and the Quality Magazines
Louise Kane 29. The Crisis
John Young 30. The Little Review
Rio Matchett 31. Contact in 1920 and 1932: Two Ways to "Speak for the Present"
Thomas Johnson Nez 32. The Reader's Digest
Richard Junger 33. The New Yorker: Expediting Creative Nonfiction and the Literary Audience
Brandon Arvesen 34. Weird Tales: Harmonious Print Culture in Pulpwood Magazines
Jason Ray Carney 35. Platinum and Early Golden Age Comics: Comics as Literary Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s
Liam Webb 36. The Partisan Review
Ian Afflerbach 37. The Paris Review
Kevin Haworth 38. 2000AD
Nick Hubble 39. RAW Materials
Morgan Podraza 40. Wasafiri: Crossing the Great Divide
Wolfgang Görtschacher 41. Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Alexander Starre 42. In Conversation with the Los Angeles Review of Books
Rosvita Rauch Bibliography
About the author
Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Fellow in Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He is the editor of several collections of essays and a member of the Board of the Research Society for American Periodicals.
Summary
With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research.
