Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- 7 New Visual Media
- 8 Midwestern Modernism and the Radio
- 9 Modernist Writing and Painting
- 10 Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary
- 11 Skyscraper Organizations
- 12 The Jazz Age
- 13 Modernism’s Deep Roots
- 14 Modernizing the American Short Story
- 15 Modernist American Long Poems
- 16 The Modernist Lyric and Its Discontents
- 17 Anthologies
- 18 Fragile Realism
- 19 Post-World War II Theater and Media
- 20 The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde
- 21 Magazines
- 22 The Modernist Presses
- 23 Literary Criticism
- 24 Libertad Bajo Palabra
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
21 - Magazines
from Part II - Forms, Genre, and Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- 7 New Visual Media
- 8 Midwestern Modernism and the Radio
- 9 Modernist Writing and Painting
- 10 Modern Folk, Modernist Documentary
- 11 Skyscraper Organizations
- 12 The Jazz Age
- 13 Modernism’s Deep Roots
- 14 Modernizing the American Short Story
- 15 Modernist American Long Poems
- 16 The Modernist Lyric and Its Discontents
- 17 Anthologies
- 18 Fragile Realism
- 19 Post-World War II Theater and Media
- 20 The Limits of an American Modernist Avant-Garde
- 21 Magazines
- 22 The Modernist Presses
- 23 Literary Criticism
- 24 Libertad Bajo Palabra
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the contribution made to American modernism by the “little magazine” format in the period from the late nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth century. It focuses upon three key examples: The Little Review (1914–29), edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap; Broom (1921–4), founded by Harold Loeb; and Partisan Review (1934–2003), first edited by Wallace Phillips and Philip Rahv. The chapter explores the transnational connections articulated by each magazine, demonstrating in particular how questions of the relationship between the avant-garde and politics dominated their contributions to American modernism.
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- The Cambridge History of American Modernism , pp. 364 - 380Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023