| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Marketplace; Chapter Two Pages; Chapter Three Fashions; Chapter Four Consumers; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Images of speed and flight dominated the pages of the new mass-market periodicals. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s alongside 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. This book 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 geographical mobility. Fantasies of travel were circulated through fiction, articles, and advertisements, and used to sell fashions, foods, and domestic products as well as holidays. For readers who could not afford a trip to Paris, Bermuda, or Lake Louise, these illustrated magazines offered proxy access to the glamour and prestige increasingly associated with travel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English and French. |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Tourism. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Travel -- History -- 20th century.
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Travel -- Periodicals.
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Travel -- Periodicals. |
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Canadian periodicals -- History -- 20th century.
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Canadian periodicals. |
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Travel. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Periodicals.
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Periodicals.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Michelle, 1974- author.
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| Added Title |
Canadian periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hammill, Faye. Magazines, travel, and middlebrow culture. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2015] 9781781381403 (OCoLC)914353110 |
| ISBN |
9781781384657 (electronic book) |
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1781384657 (electronic book) |
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9781781381403 (electronic book) |
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1781381402 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9781781381403 |
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