The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-1914

TitleThe Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-1914
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsSchneirov, Matthew
Number of Pages357 pp.
PublisherColumbia University Press
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780231082907
Annotation

Contents:
Introduction: A Power and a Pleasure

Part 1. The Gospel of Culture and the Victorian Reader
The Family House Magazines and the Gospel of Culture
The Victorian Reader and the Political Economy of the Magazine

Part 2. The Magazine Revolution
The Magazine Revolution of the 1890s
"The Whirlpool of Real Life": The Popular Magazine Project

Part 3. Dreams of Abundance, Social Control, and Social Justice
The New Secular Religion of Health
"New Worlds to Conquer": The Dreams of Progress
Muckraking, Realism, and the Dream of Social Justice
Dreams of a New Social Order

Appendix 1: Circulation in Thousands of the Leading General Interest Magazines from 1900 to 1913
Appendix 2: Topics of Lead Cosmopolitan Articles, 1893-1904
Appendix 3: Topics tf Lead Cosmopolitan Articles, 1905-1914
Appendix 4: Century Magazine Articles, 1893-1900
Appendix 5: Cosmopolitan Magazine Articles, 1893-1900
Appendix 6: Contributors, to Walker's Cosmopolitan

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