Modernity and the periodical press: trans-Atlantic mass culture and the avant-gardes, 1880-1920

Abstract

"Between 1880 and 1920, newspapers, magazines, and journals figured as the most important media for the public discussion of current events, as central nodes for the circulation of mass entertainments, and as windows into bustling art scenes. Periodicals thus presented themselves as crucial media for the negotiation and implementation of cultural modernization processes. Modernity and the Periodical Press explores this privileged role of the periodical press and focuses in particular on the often-neglected intersections between mass print culture and the practices of literary and artistic avant-gardes. In doing so, the volume examines a variety of materials that are shaped by the formats and themes of the periodical press, including Modernist little magazines, mass-marketed scrapbooks, advertising campaigns, comics, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Fleeting, Fast, and Everywhere: An Introduction to Periodical Modernity / Ruth Mayer -- 2. Engineered Desire: The Smart Set, Mass Culture, and the Dispositif of Distraction / Ruth Mayer -- 3. Strolling the Page: The Flaneur Aesthetic of M'lle New York / Kirsten MacLeod -- 4. Montages of Modernity: Correlations between the Aesthetics of Magazines, Literature, and Cinematography / Marcus Krause -- 5. Headlines for the Avant-gardes: Mina Loy, Filippo Marinetti, and Kurt Schwitters between Little Magazine Modernism and the Mass Periodical / Lilean Buhl -- 6. Scrapped: Fragments of Modernity in the Little Magazine Close Up and H.D.'s Scrapbook / Sabrina Czelustek -- 7. In and out of the Loop: American Scrapbooks, Print Capitalism, and the Rise of Modernity / Rieke Jordan -- 8. The Perils of Print: Twentieth-Century Media Modernity and the Pauline Serial on the Newspaper Page and the Film Screen / Ilka Brasch -- 9. From the Christian Oracle to the Christian Century: Avant-garde Preaching and Protestant Mass Media / Philipp Reisner -- 10. The Brownies and St. Nicholas: Agents of Modernity and Modern Childhood? / Christina Meyer -- 11. It Floats: Alice Beach Winter's Visual Narratives of Mother- and Childhood between Commerce and Sociopolitical Critique / Annabel Friedrichs -- 12. Telephonic Time(s), 1910-1918: AT&T, Periodical Advertisements, and Managerialist Modernity / Martin Liithe -- 13. Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland and the Times of Newspaper Comics, 1905-06 / Felix Brinker.