Magazines, travel, and middlebrow culture : Canadian periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960 /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edmonton :
University of Alberta Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 212 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781772120837 (paperback) 1772120839 (paperback) |