Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940 Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms

by Ardis, Ann L.; Collier, Patrick C.

• ISBN13: 9780230554269
• ISBN10: 0230554261
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Building on recent work on Victorian print culture and the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, this collection extends the frontiers of scholarship on the "Atlantic scene" of publishing, exploring new ways of grappling with the rapidly changing universe of print at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

ANN ARDIS is Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism and Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922, and co-editor of Women?s Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 and Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries.

PATRICK COLLIER is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of English at Ball State University, USA, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and culture. He is the author of Modernism on Fleet Street and numerous articles on the relations between literature and journalism.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
History, Culture, and the Public Sphere: Discipline, Theory, Methodology
Representing the Public Sphere: The New Journalism and Its Historians	p. 15
Staging the Public Sphere: Magazine Dialogism and the Prosthetics of Authorship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	p. 30
Transatlantic Print Culture: The Anglo-American Feminist Press and Emerging "Modernities"	p. 48
Feminist Things	p. 66
The Cultural Work of Print Media: Markets, Institutions, and Audiences
Philanthropy and Transatlantic Print Culture	p. 83
John O'London's Weekly and the Modern Author	p. 98
"Women are News": British Women's Magazines 1919-1939	p. 114
Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle: (Em)Bedded in Print	p. 134
Modernism on/in Print Media, Print Media in/on Modernism
Journalism and Modernism, Continued: The Case of W.T. Stead	p. 149
Journalism, Modernity, and the Globe-Trotting Girl Reporter	p. 167
The Fine Art of Cheap Print: Turn-of-the-Century American Little Magazines	p. 182
The Newspaper Response to Tender Buttons, and What It Might Mean	p. 199
An Experiment in Pedagogy
Modernist Periodicals and Pedagogy: An Experiment in Collaboration	p. 217
Index	p. 237
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