The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

• The first of three volumes of a multi-authored and comprehensive history of Modernist magazines
• An unprecedented and exciting resource for Modernist Studies
• Expert scholarship informed by the latest developments in the study of material culture and book history
• Examines the cultural and historical background of the magazines, relating artistic modernism to social and cultural modernity
• Includes general and part introductions highlighting key themes in magazine culture

Readership: Students and scholars of literary and artistic modernism; cultural historians of the twentieth century

Edited by Peter Brooker, Professorial Fellow, The Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, and Andrew Thacker, Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, School of English Performance and Historical Studies, De Montfort University

Review(s) from previous edition

"an extremely useful publication. (It has also been handsomely produced) - Stefan Collini, Times Literary Supplement

"a pioneering three-volume survey... gives a masterly overview of the period as well as authoritative potted studies of a host of individual journals" - Hugh Haughton, Literary Review

"a remarkable book" - Literature and History

Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker: General Introduction
Part One VICTORIAN PRECURSORS
Introduction
1: John Plunkett and Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi: The Pre-History of the 'Little Magazine'
2: Marysa Demoor: In the Beginning There Was the Germ: The Pre-Raphaelites and 'Little Magazines'
Part Two FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VENTURES (1884-1905)
Introduction
3: Laurel Brake: Aestheticism and Decadence: the Yellow Book (1894-97); the Chameleon (1894); and the Savoy (1896)
4: David Peters Corbett: Symbolism in British 'Little Magazines': the Dial (1889-1897); the Pageant (1896-7); and the Dome (1897-1900)
5: Imogen Hart: 'The Arts and Crafts Movement': the Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884-94); the Studio (1893- ); the Evergreen (1895-6); and the Acorn (1905)
Part Three EARLY STATEMENTS (1899-1915)
Introduction
6: Alex Davis: Yeats and the Celtic Revival: Beltaine (1899-1900); Samhain (1901-1908); Dana 7: Dominic Hibberd: The New Poetry, Georgians and Others: the Open Window (1910-11); the Poetry Review (1912-15); Poetry and Drama (1913-14); and New Numbers (1914)
Part Four TRANSITIONS
Introduction
8: Ann L. Ardis: Democracy and Modernism: the New Age under A. R. Orage (1907-1922)
9: Cliff Wulfman: Ford Madox Ford and the English Review (1908-37)
10: Matthew Huculak: The London Mercury (1919-1939) and Other Moderns
Part Five INTERVENTIONS (1911-19)
Introduction
11: Jean-Michel Rabaté: Gender and Modernism: the Freewoman (1913); the New Freewoman (1911-12); and the Egoist (1914-19)
12: Andrzej Gasiorek: The 'Little Magazine' as Weapon: BLAST (1914-15)
13: Peter Brooker: Harmony, Discord, and Difference: Rhythm (1911-13); the Blue Review (1913); and the Signature (1915)
Part Six EDITORS AND PROGRAMMES
Introduction
14: Jason Harding: The Idea of a Literary Review: T. S. Eliot and the Criterion (1922-39)
15: Michael Whitworth: Enemies of Cant: the Athenaeum and the Adelphi (1923-48)
16: John Lucas: Standards of Criticism: the Calendar of Modern Letters (1925-7)
17: Mark Morrisson: The Cause of Poetry: Thomas Moult and Voices (1919-21); Harold Monro and the Monthly Chapbook (1919-25)
18: Jane Goldman: Desmond MacCarthy, Life and Letters (1928-35), and Bloomsbury Modernism
Part Seven INTO THE 1920s: DISPERSAL AND DIFFERENCE
Introduction
19: Andrew Thacker: Aftermath of War: Coterie (1919-21); New Coterie (1925-27); Robert Graves and the Owl (1919-23)
20: Rebecca Beasley: Literature and the Visual Arts: Art and Letters (1917-20) and the Apple (1920-22)
21: Laura Marcus: Cinema and Visual Culture: Close Up (1927-33)
22: Jane Dowson: Interventions in the Public Sphere: Time and Tide (1920-30) and the Bermondsey Book (1923-1930)
23: Paul Edwards: Cultural Criticism at the Margins: Wyndham Lewis, the Tyro (1920-21), and the Enemy (1927-29)
24: Stephen Rogers: Nostalgia and Reaction: Austin O. Spare and Form (1916-17; 1921-22); the Golden Hind (1922-24); and the Decachord (1924-31)
Part Eight COMMITMENT TO THE NEW: THE 1930s
Introduction
25: Scott McCracken: Cambridge Magazines and Unfinished Business: Experiment (1928-30); the Venture (1928-30); and Cambridge Left (1933-34)
26: Peter Marks: Art and Politics in the 1930s: the European Quarterly (1934-35); Left Review (1934-38); and Poetry and the People (1938-40)
27: Stan Smith: Poetry Then: Geoffrey Grigson and New Verse (1933-39); Julian Symons and Twentieth Century Verse (1937-9)
28: Françoise Bort: A New Prose: John Lehmann and New Writing (1936-40)
29: Rod Mengham: 'National papers please reprint'. Surrealist Magazines in Britain: Contemporary Poetry and Prose (1936-7); London Bulletin (1938-40); and Arson: An Ardent Review (1942)
Part Nine BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: NATIONAL AND MIGRANT VOICES IN THE 1930s AND 1940s
Introduction
30: Chris Hopkins: Wales (1937-39); the Welsh Review (1939-)
31: Frank Shovlin: From Revolution to Republic: Magazines, Modernism, and Modernity in Ireland: the Klaxon (1923); the Irish Statesman (1923-30); the Dublin Magazine (1923-58); To-Morrow (1924); Ireland To-Day (1936-38); and the Bell (1940-54)
32: Cairns Craig: Modernism and National Identity in Scottish Magazines: the Evergreen (1895-97); the Northern Review (1924); the Modern Scot (1930-36); Scottish Art and Letters (1944-1950); the Scottish Chapbook (1922-3); Outlook (1936-1937); and the Voice of Scotland (1938-39; 1945; 1955)
33: Olga Taxidou: A New 'Art of the Theatre': Gordon Craig's the Mask (1908-28) and the Marionette (1918-19)
34: Mark Jacobs: Modernism as 'Uninfected Discourse': Laura Riding, Epilogue (1935-38) and Focus (1935)
Part Ten THE CALL TO CRITICISM AND MODERNIST DESTINIES
Introduction
35: Sean Matthews: 'Say not the struggle naught availeth': F. R. Leavis and Scrutiny (1932-53)
36: Sean Latham: Cyril Connolly's Horizon (1940-50) and the End of Modernism
37: James Keery: Poetry London (1939-1951) and Indian Writing (1940-42): the Apocalyptic Poets, 'New Modernism', and 'The Progressive View of Art'
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