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

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