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Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
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ISSN (Print) 1947-6574 - ISSN (Online) 2152-9272
Published by Penn State University Press

[34 journals]

Poetic Parties and Casual Correlations: The Little Review and Form
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  Abstract: One cannot define modernism without invoking form. Form matters not only as an aesthetic category for individual texts, but also as a means of circumscribing constellations of artistic identification and organization: genres, styles, movements, schools. And these constellations in turn signal formal arrangements seemingly unconcerned with aesthetics: social groupings, scientific categories, political positions, principles of social difference, or, to use another register: figurations of authority, entitlement, belonging. “Form, in modernist poetry, lies at the intersection of social discourse and aesthetic design,” writes Suzanne Churchill.1All of these different materializations of form converge in the open form ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
How to Dress the Body Artfully: The “Art in Dress” Column in The Art
Amateur Magazine, 1881–1883
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  Abstract: The Art Amateur, from which the epigraph is drawn, was an art periodical published in New York from 1879 to 1903, the brainchild of New York editor and publisher Montague Marks (1847–1924).2 From its inaugural issue in June 1879, the periodical invited a readership of women to master the arts and crafts of the household, including painting on textiles, lace making, needlework, tapestry, ceramics, china painting, etching, wood carving, and house and mantlepiece decoration, to name a few.3 Proclaiming itself “A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Cultivation of Art in the Household,” its inaugural cover (Fig. 1) located the female art amateur’s subject in the home, a subjectivity constructed through the decorative ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
“And do a Grizzly”: Djuna Barnes and Dancing Animals in the
New York Press
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  Abstract: In this 1910 composition Irving Berlin celebrates the “Grizzly Bear,” an incredibly popular ragtime dance of the period. The “Grizzly Bear” was the very opposite of graceful social dances such as the waltz. The dynamic was clumsy and rough. Partners slumped their upper torso in side-leans with their hands claw-like and arms hugging closely, whilst stepping heavily from side to side. Along with other “animal” dances such as the “Bunny Hug” and “Turkey Trot,” it sparked the social dance craze that swept the United States in the 1910s. Bear dancing, the performing animal act that forces bears to mimic dancing and other human gestures, has a global history of abuse and exploitation, but this anthropomorphised figure ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the “Colyumn”:
Sophistication, Publicity, and Jazz Journalism
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  Abstract: Near the end of Jazz Age classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos’s ditzy protagonist, Lorelei Lee, holds a “debut” to end all debuts. Attended by bootleggers and showgirls, her party achieves its goal of landing her on the front page of two fictional New York City tabloids. Despite dramatic headlines like “LORELEI’S DEBUT A WOW,” the event constitutes a “great success” by Lorelei’s standards: she believes she has refashioned her public image in accordance with the Jazz Age ideal of “sophistication” when in fact these papers openly mock her for imagining the carouse to be a proper debut.1 That Lorelei plays into the sensationalizing hand of Jazz Journalism in this scene provides Loos with the opportunity to ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
(review)
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  Abstract: In Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann traces how, during the 1940s, a set of “little magazines” in Cuba, Martinique, and Barbados served a crucial role in the process by which the idea of a Caribbean or West Indian or Antillean region came to be. In doing so, she brilliantly underscores the critical necessity of attending to how “literary infrastructures” (Gonzalez Seligmann’s term) produce uneven access to literary reception and literary world-making because of colonial power that centers European and US American metropoles. Yet the thrust of her book is not to reproduce that colonial literary infrastructure by giving too much attention to the failings of the publishing industries ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
Imagining Gender, Nation, and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s by
Rachel Alexander (review)
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  Abstract: Over the past two decades, modernist periodical studies has gradually expanded its precincts to consider magazines and newspapers well beyond the little magazines and the major book reviews. This coincides with a more general shift in the critical discourse to focus on understanding modernism within its historical moment—both by considering high modernists as consumers and producers of mass and popular culture (Faulkner wrote for Hollywood!) and by studying more closely the responses of mass and popular critics and audiences to high modernist works. The smart magazines in the Smart Set (see George Douglas’s The Smart Magazines, NY: 1991) and critics like H. L. Mencken have been studied as mediators between the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
Look: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth
Century America by Andrew L. Yarrow (review)
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  Abstract: In the world of American general interest magazines, Time Inc.’s Life takes up a lot of oxygen. Partially, this is because Life was a central component of the contemporaneous media fabric, claiming to reach roughly 17 million readers at its height. Its photography-driven journalism, adapted from earlier French and German periodicals, acclimated a generation of US readers to what Jeff Allred calls “the camera-guided mind.”1But Life also dominates twenty-first century histories of postwar culture for reasons having little to do with its original print run. Since 2008, through an arrangement with Google Books, every issue—along with millions of photographs from Life’s own archive, many never published—has been ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00