The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950

The collection as a whole effectively tackles the difficult task of balancing textual and con-textual analysis. As such, it provides a rich discussion of the short story within periodical culture over time. The chapters demonstrate a real commitment to exploring diverse short stories and venues up to 1950 even as they turn our critical attention to intertextual relations, offering necessary breadth to our understanding of the short story during this period. -- Kate Krueger, Clarkson University * English Studies *
The collection as a whole effectively tackles the difficult task of balancing textual and con-textual analysis. As such, it provides a rich discussion of the short story within periodical culture over time. The chapters demonstrate a real commitment to exploring diverse short stories and venues up to 1950 even as they turn our critical attention to intertextual relations, offering necessary breadth to our understanding of the short story during this period. -- Kate Krueger, Clarkson University * English Studies *
The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars—indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms. * Patrick Collier, Ball State University *
This volume assembles an impressive array of contributions, with broad thematic concerns, and diverse approaches to the rich terrain of periodical studies. The collection fully demonstrates the various ways in which the periodical as a medium may reshape our understanding of modernism and modernity. Attending to little magazines as well as middlebrow and illustrated popular magazines, it resonates richly with the New Modernist Studies’ agenda of expanding the cultural latitude of high modernism. It is essential reading for researchers interested in modern periodical studies, and the short story form. -- Yen-Chi Wu, Academia Sinica * The Modernist Review *
This volume assembles an impressive array of contributions, with broad thematic concerns, and diverse approaches to the rich terrain of periodical studies. The collection fully demonstrates the various ways in which the periodical as a medium may reshape our understanding of modernism and modernity. Attending to little magazines as well as middlebrow and illustrated popular magazines, it resonates richly with the New Modernist Studies’ agenda of expanding the cultural latitude of high modernism. It is essential reading for researchers interested in modern periodical studies, and the short story form. -- Yen-Chi Wu, Academia Sinica * The Modernist Review *