Claim Now American Little Magazines Of The Fin De Siecle: Art, Protest, And Cultural Transformation Fashioned By Kirsten MacLeod Made Available In Audio Book
American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form the little magazine and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life
at the turn of the twentieth century.
Though the little magazine has long been regarded as the preserve of modernist avantgardes and elite artistic coteries, for whom it served as a form of resistance to mass media, MacLeod's detailed study of its origins paints a different picture.
Combining cultural, textual, literary, and media studies criticism, MacLeod demonstrates how the little magazine was deeply connected to the artistic, social, political, and cultural interests of a rising professionalmanagerial class.
She offers a richly contextualized analysis of the little magazine's position in the broader media landscape: namely, its relationship to old and new media, including preindustrial print forms, newspapers, massmarket magazines, fine press books, and posters.
MacLeod's study challenges conventional understandings of the little magazine as a genre and emphasizes the power of "little" media in a massmarket context, .