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List of Contributors
Andrew Thacker: General Introduction: 'Magazines, magazines,
magazines!'
Part I Tradition and Experiment
Orientations
1: Helen Carr: Poetry: a Magazine of Verse (1912-36), 'biggest of
little magazines'
2: Alan Golding: The Little Review (1914-29)
3: Christina Britzolakis: The Dial (1920-9)
4: Rachel Farebrother: The Crisis (1910-34)
Precursors, Mainstream, and Margins
5: Brad Evans: 'Ephemeral Bibelots' in the 1890s
6: Giles Bergel: The Chap-Book (1894-8)
7: Faye Hammill and Karen Leick: Modernism and the Quality
Magazines: Vanity Fair (1914-36); American Mercury (1924- ); New
Yorker (1925- ); Esquire (1933 - )
8: David Earle: Pulp Magazines and the Popular Press
An American Art
9: Sharon Hamilton: American Manners: The Smart Set (1900-29);
American Parade (1926)
10: Eric White: In the American Grain: Contact (1920-3; 1932) and
Pagany. A Native Quarterly (1930-3)
11: Caroline Blinden: Through an American Lens: Camera Work
(1903-17) and 291 (1915-6); Manuscripts
The Free Verse Controversy
12: Suzanne W. Churchill and Ethan Jaffee: The New Poetry: Glebe
(1913-14), Others (1915-19); The Poetry Review of America
(1916-17)
13: Andrew Thacker: Poetry in Perspective: the Mélange of the
1920s: The Measure (1921-26), Rhythmus (1923-4), and Palms
(1923-30)
14: Alex Howard: Into the 1930s: ound & Horn (1927-34) Troubadour
(1928-32), Blues (1929-30), Smoke (1931-37), and Furioso
(1939-53)
Drama and the Critical Arts
15: Dorothy Chansky and Terry Brino-Dean: A New Theatre: Theatre
Arts Magazine (1916-64); Drama (1911-31)
16: Victoria Kingham: 'Audacious Modernity': The Seven Arts
(1916-17), The Soil (1916-17), and The Trend (1911-15)
17: Michael Faherty: Hound & Horn (1927-34)
Part II The Metropolis, Regionalism, Canada, and Europe
Greenwich Village
18: Stephen Rogers: Bruno's Bohemia: Greenwich Village (1915);
Bruno's Chap Books (1915-16); Bruno's Weekly (1915-16); Bruno's
(1917); Bruno's Bohemia (1918); Bruno's Review (1919); Bruno's
Review of Two Worlds (1920-22)
19: Deborah Longworth: The Avant-Garde in the Village: Rogue
(1915)
20: Stephen Rogers: Village Voices: The Ink-Pot (1916); Open Vistas
(1925); The New Cow (1927); The Village Magazine (1910, 1920,
1925); The Greenwich Villager (1921-2; 33-4)
The South and West
21: Michael Kreyling: Fugitive Voices: The Reviewer (1921-25); The
Lyric (1921- ); The Fugitive (1922-5)
22: Craig Monk: Negotiating the Margins of the American South: The
Double Dealer (1921-9)
23: Mark S. Morrisson: The Call of the Southwest: The Texas Review
(1915-24), Southwest Review (1924-), and The Morada (1929-30)
24: Jeffrey C. Swenson: Middling Modernism and the Midwestern
Little Magazine: The Midland (1915-33) and Prairie Schooner
(1927-)
25: Sarah A. Fedirka: 'Our Own Authentic Wonderland': The Modernist
Geographical Imagination and 'Little Magazines' of the American
West: Laughing Horse (1921-39), Westward (1927-34), Troubadour
(1928-32), Gyroscope (1929-30), New Mexico Quarterly (1931-69), and
Intermountain Review (1937-65)
Canada
26: Dean Irvine: 'Little magazines' in English Canada
Cross-Currents: America and Europe
27: Peter Nicholls: Destinations: Broom (1921-4) and Secession
(1922-4)
28: Peter Brooker: 'Growth through disagreement': S4N (1919-25)
29: Gregory Baptista: Between Worlds: Gargoyle (1921-2); This
Quarter (1925-32); and Tambour (1929-1930)
30: Andrzej Gasiorek: Exiles: the transatlantic review (1924-5) and
The Exile (1927-8)
31: Céline Mansanti: Between Modernisms: transition (1927-1938)
32: Christopher Bains: Critics Abroad: The Early Years of The Paris
Review (1953-65)
33: Stamatina Dimakopoulou: Europe in America: Remapping Broken
Cultural Lines: View (1940-7) and VVV (1942-4)
Part III The Radical Decades
The Harlem Renaissance
34: George Hutchinson: Organisational Voices: The Messenger
(1917-28) and Opportunity (1923-49)
35: Martha Nadell: 'Devoted to younger negro artists': Fire!!
(1926) and Harlem (1928)
A Revolutionary Message
36: Benoît Tadié: The Masses Speak: The Masses (1911-17); The
Liberator (1918-24); New Masses (1926-48); and Masses & Mainstream
(1948-63)
37: Peter Marks: The Left in the Twenties: Good Morning (1919-22),
The Freeman (1920-4), The Modern Quarterly (1923-9)
38: Peter Marks: The Left in the Thirties: The Modern Quarterly
(1929-33; became The Modern Monthly, 1933-40), Blast: A Magazine of
Proletarian Short Stories (1933-4), and The Windsor Quarterly
(1933-5)
39: Michael Rozendal: Rebel Poets and Critics: The Rebel Poet
(1931-2), The Anvil (1933-5), Dynamo (1934-5), and Partisan Review
(1934-2003)
The Critical 1940s
40: John N. Duvall: New Criticism's Major Journals: The Southern
Review (1935-42); The Kenyon Review (1939-70); and The Sewanee
Review (1892- )
41: Tim Woods: Academic Magazines: The Morningside (1815-1932);
Yale Review (1819- ); The Columbia Review (1932- ); The Wake
(1944-6; 1948-53); Chicago Review (1946- ); The Georgia Review
(1947- ), Epoch (1947- ); The Beloit Poetry Journal (1950-);
TriQuarterly (1958-); and The Big Table (1959-60)
In the Modernist Grain
42: Tim Woods: Black Mountain and Associates: Origin (1951-2007)
and The Black Mountain Review (1954-7)
43: Ian Patterson: New York Poets: Folder (1953-6); Neon (1956-60);
and Yugen (1958-62)
44: R. J. Ellis: 'little... only with some qualification': the
Beats and Beat 'little magazines': Neurotica (1948-52); The Ark
(1947); Ark II Moby I (1956); Ark III (1957); Black Mountain Review
(1957); Evergreen Review (1957-9); Chicago Review (1958); Big Table
(1959-65); Kulchur (1960-5); and Yugen (1958-62)
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Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture,
Film and Media, the University of Nottingham. He has written widely
on contemporary writing, theory, and film is the author of Bertolt
Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions
(1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004,
2007) and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2002). He has
co-edited The Geographies of
Modernism (2005), and was Co-Director of the AHRC funded Modernist
Magazine Project (2005-2010). Most recently he is co-editor of
Vol.1 of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist
Magazines (2009) and of the Oxford Handbook of Modernisms
(2010). He was a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Modernist
Studies at the University of Sussex (2008-10) and a Visiting
Professor at the University of Birmingham (2009). He has served
since 2005 as Chair of the Raymond Williams Society.
Andrew Thacker is currently Professor of Twentieth Century
Literature and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De
Montfort University, Leicester. He co-founded the Northern
Modernism seminar and is an editor of the journal Literature &
History. He has published widely upon modernism, including Moving
Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003), The
Imagist Poets (2011), and the co-edited Oxford Handbook of
Modernisms (2010). He is
currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies.
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