1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine
Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns.
With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research.
Divided into three main sections, this book offers:
• Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does.
• History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions.
• Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine.
The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.
Introduction
Tim Lanzendörfer
Part 1: Theory
1. The Magazine in Theory
Patrick Collier
2. The Literary in Theory
Travis Kurowski
3. Nineteenth Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine
Graham Thompson
4. Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine
Matthew Pethers
5. Visuality in Literary Magazines
Vanessa Meikle Schulman
6. Materiality and the American Literary Magazine in the Nineteenth Century: At the Mercy of Logistics
Maya Merlob
7. Materiality in 20th and 21st Century Literary Magazines
Oliver Scheiding
8. Boundaries I: Comics and/as Literary Magazines: "Originally Published in Magazines"
Neale Barnholden
9. Boundaries II: Popular Fiction and Literary Magazines
David M. Earle
10. The Business of Literary Magazines in Nineteenth-Century America
Heather Haveman
11. Literary Magazines and the Challenge of the Digital
Seth Perlow
Part 2: Regional and Historical Contexts
12. 18th Century British Literary Magazines
Jacob Sider Jost
13. Early American Literary Magazines
Tim Lanzendörfer
14. The Nineteenth-Century British Literary Magazine
Caley Ehnes
15. The Literary Magazine in Gilded Age America
Mark Noonan
16. Southern Regionalism in the United States
Keri Holt
17. Modernism and the Little Magazine
Victoria Bazin
18. Modernism and the Pulp Magazine
Andrew Ferguson
19. Modernism in the Middle Brow Magazine
Rachael Alexander
20. The African American Literary Magazine, Modernism and Beyond
Justin Gifford
21. Canadian Literary Magazines and the Growth of a National Literature
Hannah McGregor
22. The Political Face of Modernism: Re-Mapping Modernisms Across the Wartime Print Ecology
Christopher J. La Casse
23. 20th Century Science Fiction Magazines
Nathan Madison
24. 21st Century Little Magazines
Joanne Diaz and Ian Morris
Part 3: Case Studies
25. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Tom Toremans and Ernest De Clerck
26. Graham’s Magazine, Professional Authorship, and the Valuation of Literature
Adam Gordon
27. The Anglo-African Magazine: Black History as Literary Nexus
Cora Anthony
28. The Century and the Quality Magazines
Louise Kane
29. The Crisis
John Young
30. The Little Review
Rio Matchett
31. Contact in 1920 and 1932: Two Ways to "Speak for the Present"
Thomas Johnson Nez
32. The Reader’s Digest
Richard Junger
33. The New Yorker: Expediting Creative Nonfiction and the Literary Audience
Brandon Arvesen
34. Weird Tales: Harmonious Print Culture in Pulpwood Magazines
Jason Ray Carney
35. Platinum and Early Golden Age Comics: Comics as Literary Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s
Liam Webb
36. The Partisan Review
Ian Afflerbach
37. The Paris Review
Kevin Haworth
38. 2000AD
Nick Hubble
39. RAW Materials
Morgan Podraza
40. Wasafiri: Crossing the Great Divide
Wolfgang Görtschacher
41. Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Alexander Starre
42. In Conversation with the Los Angeles Review of Books
Rosvita Rauch
Bibliography
Biography
Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Fellow in Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He is the editor of several collections of essays and a member of the Board of the Research Society for American Periodicals.