Introduction / Tim Lanzendörfer -- The magazine in theory / Patrick Collier -- The literary in theory / Travis Kurowski -- Nineteenth century transnationalism and the literary magazine / Graham Thompson -- Serialization and the narrative scales of the literary magazine / Matthew Pethers -- Visuality in literary magazines / Vanessa Meikle Schulman -- Materiality and the American literary magazine in the nineteenth century : at the mercy of logistics / Maya Merlob -- Materiality in 20th and 21st century literary magazines / Oliver Scheiding -- Boundaries I : comics and/as literary magazines : "originally published in magazines" / Neale Barnholden -- Boundaries II : popular fiction and literary magazines / David M. Earle -- The business of literary magazines in nineteenth-century America / Heather Haveman -- Literary magazines and the challenge of the digital / Seth Perlow -- 18th century British literary magazines / Jacob Sider Jost -- Early American literary magazines / Tim Lanzendörfer -- The nineteenth-century British literary magazine / Caley Ehnes -- The literary magazine in Gilded Age America / Mark Noonan -- Southern regionalism in the United States / Keri Holt -- Modernism and the little magazine / Victoria Bazin -- Modernism and the pulp magazine / Andrew Ferguson -- Modernism in the middle brow magazine / Rachael Alexander -- The African American literary magazine, modernism and beyond / Justin Gifford -- Canadian literary magazines and the growth of a national literature / Hannah McGregor -- The political face of modernism : re-mapping modernisms across the wartime print ecology / Christopher J. La Casse -- 20th century science fiction magazines / Nathan Madison -- 21st century little magazines / Joanne Diaz and Ian Morris -- Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine / Tom Toremans and Ernest De Clerck -- Graham's magazine, professional authorship, and the valuation of literature / Adam Gordon -- The Anglo-African magazine : black history as literary nexus / Cora Anthony -- The century and the quality magazines / Louise Kane -- The crisis / John Young -- The little review / Rio Matchett -- Contact in 1920 and 1932 : two ways to "speak for the present" / Thomas Johnson Nez -- The reader's digest / Richard Junger -- The New Yorker : expediting creative nonfiction and the literary audience / Brandon Arvesen -- Weird tales : harmonious print culture in pulpwood magazines / Jason Ray Carney -- Platinum and early golden age comics : comics as literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s / Liam Webb -- The partisan review / Ian Afflerbach -- The Paris review / Kevin Haworth -- 2000AD / Nick Hubble -- RAW materials / Morgan Podraza -- Wasafiri : crossing the great divide / Wolfgang Görtschacher -- Timothy McSweeney's quarterly concern / Alexander Starre -- In conversation with the Los Angeles review of books / Rosvita Rauch.
Summary:
"Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. 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. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: Theory - it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does History and Regionalism - a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions Case Studies - these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the "literary" as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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