periodicals & news
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Tessa Jordan. Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism.
“‘If you wish to write about your children, may we suggest Ladies’ Home Journal? We are a literary magazine’” (156). The above statement, received by American Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon…
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Graham Thompson, Herman Melville Among the Magazines
The book details the practices and priorities of an evolving US periodical culture by elaborating Melville’s “embeddedness” (8–13) within it. The method foregrounds Thompson’s expert command of the author’s correspondence,…
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Donal Harris, On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines provides a valuable addition to the history of American literary modernism by highlighting the ways it “evolve[d] within rather than against…
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Tom F. Wright, Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons, 1830-1870
At a time when public figures, the media, and the public are locked in an ongoing daily battle to define the truth, it feels wise to draw our attention to…
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Agatha Beins, Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Agatha Beins. Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. 240p., ill. ISBN 9780820349510. US$ 84.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9780820349534. US$ 32.95 (paperback). In…
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Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. ix, 272p., ill. ISBN 9781421421346. US $50.00. Bartholomew Brinkman’s surprising, skillfully argued Poetic Modernism…
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Caroline Maniaque-Benton and Meredith Gaglio, eds. Whole Earth Field Guide
Caroline Maniaque-Benton and Meredith Gaglio, eds. Whole Earth Field Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. xii, 107p., ill. ISBN 9780262529280. US $34.95. The Whole Earth Field Guide is a heavily…
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James J. Connolly, Patrick Collier, Frank Felsenstein, Kenneth R. Hall, and Robert G. Hall, eds. Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
James J. Connolly, Patrick Collier, Frank Felsenstein, Kenneth R. Hall, and Robert G. Hall, eds. Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. x, 464p., ill.…