Description
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
Ultra-Modern Eves
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Series
Author: Wood Alice
Language: EnglishSubjects for Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines:
Keywords
Young Man; Harper’s Bazaar; Literature; Commercial Women’s Magazines; Research; UK Edition; Modernism; Rue De Fleurus; Modernity; British Women’s Magazines; Popular Culture; British Electrical Development Association; Middlebrow Literature; British Vogue; Middlebrow Studies; Good Housekeeping; Women's Magazines; Great Divide; Women's Periodicals; National Magazine Company; Vogue; Lady’s Pictorial; Eve: The Lady’s Pictorial; Paris Note Book; Constance Markievicz; Edith Sitwell; Fashion; Winifred Holtby; Domesticity; Post Wars; Journalism; Stein’s Reputation; UK Advertising; Rose Macaulay; William III; Gertrude Stein; Women’s International Art Club; Virginia Woolf; Vanessa Bell; Celebrity; Amalgamated Press; Mass Markets; American Vogue; Highbrow; Women’s Magazines; Lowbrow; modernism's public profile; contemporary hierarchies; British women's magazines
Publication date: 01-2022
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 07-2020
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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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.
Introduction
1.Mediating Modernity
2.Modernism in Fashion
3.Dissident Voices and Feminist Experiment
4.Modernist Reputations
Coda
Appendices
Alice Wood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, UK.