Magazines and Modern Identities

Tim Satterthwaite lectures on 20th-century art and design at the University of Brighton and Middlesex University, UK. He is the author of Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal (2020), and co-directed the Future States conference on the history of magazines with Andrew Thacker in 2020 (www.futurestates.org).Andrew Thacker is Professor of 20th-Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK and co-director of its Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. He has written or edited many books on modernism, including three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13).

Three shifts mark Magazines and Modern Identities in expanding periodical studies: from “small” to “big” embedded in key historical turns; from textual to visual and contextual readings; and from Europe- and US-centred studies to cultural displacements. With interdisciplinary focus that defies fixed definitions, these thorough chapters ask: whose modernity and identity was it, and why?

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: ‘The Rapid Rhythm of Modern Life’, Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Tim Satterthwaite (University of Brighton, UK)Part I: Modern Times: Magazines in the USA at the turn of the 20th century1. “A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies”?: The Arena magazine, alternative modernities and US radicalprint culture (1889-1909), Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet (Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, France)2. “The Young Man of To-Day is not the Young Man of Fifty Years Ago”: The changing image of UnitedStates men in the cover art of popular periodicals, 1880–1920, Richard Junger (Western Michigan University, USA)Part II: The Age of Extremes: European magazines of the interwar decades3. Left-wing Answers to the Bourgeois Illustrated Press in the German Reich, Konrad Dussel (University of Mannheim, Germany)4. Spearheading the Iconic Turn: German Illustrated Magazines in the Interwar Period, Patrick Rössler (University of Erfurt, Germany)5. Acrobatics of the Printed Page: The Cosmopolitanism of Rizzoli’s Periodicals, Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)6. Visual Modernism and its Others in VU, Laura Truxa (EHESS, Paris, France)7. ‘The Greater Britain of Fascism’: Politics, Propaganda and Photography in Action (1936-40), Emma West (University of Birmingham, UK)Part III: Transnational Modernities: Culture and lifestyle magazines in Canada and Australia8. Memories and Promises: Australian Modernism and National Identities in Home During the 1930s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) and Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University, Australia)9. Seeing the World and One’s Place Within It: Australian Quality Magazines and the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s, Susann Liebich (Univ of Heidelberg) and Victoria Kuttainen (James Cook University, Australia)10. To be or Not to be Modern: The paradox of Modernity in the French-Canadian Magazine La Revue moderne During the 1930s, Adrien Rannaud (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada)11. Magazine Digest, Canadian Invader?, Jaleen Grove (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)Part IV: Future States: Chinese, Soviet Turkic, and Mexican magazines12. Global Magazine Culture and Modern Chinese Identities, Michel Hockx (University of Notre Dame, France) and Liying Sun (University of Iowa, USA)13. Photographic Portraits of Leaders of the 1911 Revolution: The Promise of Historical Rupture in the Chinese Republican Press, Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany)14. Publishing the Nation: Periodicals and Nation-Building in Soviet Turkic Communities, 1921-1937 Michael Erdman (British Library, UK)15. Female Identities and Translocal Networks in Mexican Folkways, Claudia Cedeño Báez (University of Tübingen, Germany)BibliographyIndex