Synopses & Reviews
Review
Arising from a collaborative research project and taking across-cultural approach, this book focuses on six magazines (in English and in French) which are both similar in character and yetdistinctive, in three primary contexts: current research on magazines, on travel, and on middlebrow culture, with the latterproviding the theoretical framework. The authors found, among other things, that the presentation of travel was greatly influenced by thenational agendas which shaped all six magazines. Distributed in the US by Wayne State University Press.Annotation �2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Synopsis
"Where did you go last year, when the winter winds blew?" -Mayfair, 1935
As commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s, they promoted an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies-among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne-presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity. Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographic mobility. Students and scholars of Canadian studies, cultural and social history, publishing, literary studies, cultural studies, communications studies, and print culture will find this book, a first in Canadian middlebrow culture, a must-have on their shelf.