Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines
Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines

Author: Alice Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781138285620

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This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women's magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK) and Harper's Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals, and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by an array of canonical and marginalized writers, including Storm Jameson, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The book's analysis is attentive to text and image and to interactions between editorial, feature, and advertising material. Its detailed survey of these largely neglected magazines reveals how they situated radical aesthetics in relation to modernity's broader new challenges, diversions, and opportunities for women, and how they approached high modernist art and literature through discourses of fashion and celebrity. Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines extends recent research into the diverse markets and publication outlets through which modernism circulated and adds to the substantial body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between modernism and popular culture. It demonstrates that commercial women's magazines subversively disrupted and sustained contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture as well as actively participating in the construction of modernism's public profile.

Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines

Author: Alice Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1351967398

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This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper’s Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by an array of canonical and marginalized writers, including Storm Jameson, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The book’s analysis is attentive to text and image and to interactions between editorial, feature, and advertising material. Its detailed survey of these largely neglected magazines reveals how they situated radical aesthetics in relation to modernity’s broader new challenges, diversions, and opportunities for women, and how they approached high modernist art and literature through discourses of fashion and celebrity. Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines extends recent research into modernism’s circulation through diverse markets and publication outlets and adds to the substantial body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between modernism and popular culture. It demonstrates that commercial women’s magazines subversively disrupted and sustained contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture as well as actively participating in the construction of modernism’s public profile.

Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines

Author: Alice Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781315265513

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"This book explores the treatment of modernism and modernity in early twentieth-century British women’s magazines. It expands recent research into the diverse markets and publication outlets through which literary modernism circulated by tracing modernism’s presence in commercial magazines that have so far escaped sustained critical attention. Through an extensive survey of issues of Vogue (UK), Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial, Good Housekeeping (UK) and Harper’s Bazaar (UK) published between 1916 and 1940, Wood uncovers how modernism was received, disseminated, and shaped by fashion and domestic titles across this period, and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by canonical and marginalized writers including Winifred Holtby, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. Analysis of editorial, feature, and advertising content is alert to interactions between word and image and reveals how modernism was mediated in relation to fashion, modernity, celebrity, and pleasure inside the glossy covers of these highly-commodified and multi-vocal texts. The book extends research into the role of periodicals in the cultural and textual production of modernism and adds to the substantial body of scholarship exposing the engagement of modernist writers with mass markets and popular culture. This volume demonstrates how women’s magazines engaged with and disrupted contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture and actively participated in constructing modernism’s public profile."--Provided by publisher.

Time and Tide
Time and Tide

Author: Catherine Clay

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1474418198

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"The first in-depth study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, "Time and Tide." Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, "Time and Tide" both challenged persistent prejudices against women's participation in public life and played an instrumental role in redefining women's gender roles and identities. Drawing on extensive new archival research, Catherine Clay recovers the contributions to this magazine of both well- and lesser-known British women writers, editors, critics and journalists and explores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines.' The book makes a major contribution to the history of women's writing and feminism in Britain between the wars."--Publisher's description

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives

Author: Jamie Callison

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1350450561

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Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful bibliographical resources) and a guide to avenues for future work. Archival work in modernist studies has revolutionised the discipline in the past two decades, fuelled by innovative and ambitious scholarly editing projects and a growing interest in fresh types of archival sources and evidence that can re-contextualise modernist writing. Several theoretical trends have prompted this development, including the focus on compositional process within genetic manuscript studies, the emphasis on book history, little magazines, and wider publishing contexts, and the emphasis on new material evidence and global and 'non-canonical' authors and networks within the 'New Modernist Studies'. This book provides a guide to the variety of new archival research that will point to fresh avenues and connect the methodologies and resources being developed across modernist studies. Offering a variety of single-author case studies on recent archival developments and editing projects, including Samuel Beckett, Hart Crane, H.D., James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf, it also offers a range of thematic essays that examine an array of underused sources as well as the challenges facing archival researchers of modernism

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939

Author: Catherine Clay

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1474412548

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This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to 'home and duty' for women.

Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958
Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958

Author: Eleanor Reed

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1837646589

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A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a brand-new approach to surveying a popular domestic magazine. Reading Woman’s Weekly alongside titles including Good Housekeeping, My Weekly, Peg’s Paper and Woman’s Own, and works by authors including Dot Allan, E.M. Delafield, George Orwell and J.B. Priestley, it positions the publication within both the contemporary magazine market and the field of literature more broadly, redrawing the parameters of that field as it approaches the domestic magazine as a literary genre in its own right. Between 1918 and 1958, Woman’s Weekly targeted a lower middle-class readership: broadly, housewives and unmarried clerical workers on low incomes, who viewed or aspired to view themselves as middle-class. Examining the magazine’s distinctively lower middle-class treatment of issues including the First World War’s impact on gender, the status of housewives and working women, women’s contribution to the Second World War effort, and Britain’s post-war economic and social recovery, this book supplies fresh and challenging insights into lower middle-class culture, during a period in which Britain’s lower middle classes were gaining prominence, and middle-class lifestyles were undergoing rapid and radical change.

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s

Author: Faith Binckes

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1474450652

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New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores women's role in shaping conversations about modernism and modernity across varied aesthetic and ideological registers, and foregrounds how such participation was shaped by a wide range of periodical genres. The essays focus on well-known publications and introduce those as yet obscure and understudied - including middlebrow and popular magazines, movement-based, radical papers, avant-garde titles and classic Little Magazines. Examining neglected figures and shining new light on familiar ones, the collection enriches our understanding of the role women played in the print culture of this transformative period.Key FeaturesHelps recover neglected women writers and cast new light on canonical onesHighlights the geographical diversity of modern British print cultureEmphasises the interdisciplinary nature of modernism, including essays on modernist dance, music, cinema, drama and architecture Includes a section on social movement periodicals

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

Author: Maren Tova Linett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1139825437

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Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.