ISBN:
1772120839
,
9781772120837
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 212, [32] S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
305.5/509710904
Keywords:
Canadian periodicals History 20th century
;
Travel Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Middle class History 20th century
;
Popular literature History and criticism
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
National characteristics, Canadian History 20th century
;
Canada Social life and customs 20th century
;
Kanada
;
Zeitschrift
;
Mittelstand
;
Geschichte 1925-1960
Abstract:
"As commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s, they promoted an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies--among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne--presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity. Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographic mobility. Students and scholars of Canadian studies, cultural and social history, publishing, literary studies, cultural studies, communications studies, and print culture will find this book, a first in Canadian middlebrow culture, a must-have on their shelf."--
Abstract:
"As commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s, they promoted an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies--among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne--presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity. Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographic mobility. Students and scholars of Canadian studies, cultural and social history, publishing, literary studies, cultural studies, communications studies, and print culture will find this book, a first in Canadian middlebrow culture, a must-have on their shelf."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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