Synopses & Reviews
If modernism began in the magazines, as Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman argue, then the study of modern culture should begin with these publications. Scholes and Wulfmanand#8217;s radically inclusive approach not only considers the and#8220;littleand#8221; modernist magazines alongside the and#8220;bigand#8221; or mass magazines often dismissed as antithetical to modernismand#8217;s elite culture, but also insists that scholars must investigate their contents as a wholeand#8212;from poetry to advertisingand#8212;to appreciate their full significance. The bookand#8217;s appendix also reprints a previously uncollected critique of popular British magazines from 1917 and 1918 by Ezra Pound.
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Modernism in the Magazines sets the course for the emergent field of modern periodical studies and will become essential reading for the revitalized study and teaching of modernism."and#8212;Sean Latham, University of Tulsa
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Modernism in the Magazines is at once a clarion call for scholars and students of modernism to transform the field through periodical studies and to harness the as-yet under-utilized potential of digital databases, but it is also a refreshingly useful guidebook showing readers how to do just that. There truly is no other book out there like this.and#8221;and#8212;Mark Morrisson, Pennsylvania State University
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and#8220;Scholes and Wulfman have produced a masterful introduction to modernist periodical studies that will be an invaluable resource for students as well as to scholars of Anglo-American literary modernism.and#8221;and#8212;Ann Ardis, University of Delaware
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"Having recently woken up the editor of a literary magazine, I found myself riveted by this book."—Lorin Stein, Harpers Lorin Stein
About the Author
Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, andand#160;former President of the MLA. He is the author of numerous books, including The Crafty Reader, The Rise and Fall of English, and Parodoxy of Modernism. Clifford Wulfman is Coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives at Princeton University and technical director of the Modernist Journals Project.