{"product_id":"reading-the-century-illustrated-monthly-noonan-9781606350638","title":"Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHow a prominent magazine shaped nineteenth-century American literature and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the 1870s, the organization and stewardship of American culture by the upper classes began to take hold on a mass scale, due in part to the founding of museums, municipal libraries, symphony halls, theaters, and public parks. In addition, periodicals such as \u003cem\u003eScribner's Magazine, Harper's Monthly Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e became major players in shaping the country's cultural ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFounded in 1870, \u003cem\u003eScribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich became \u003cem\u003eThe Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine \u003c\/em\u003ein 1881, offered its predominantly upper-middle-class readership historical and biographical essays, serialized novels, scientific and technological updates, and discussions of contemporary events and issues, such as woman suffrage, Chinese immigration, labor strikes, and \"the Negro problem.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a smooth narrative style, author Mark J. Noonan examines the worldview projected by \u003cem\u003eScribner's-Century \u003c\/em\u003eeditors and how those editors, as white male Protestants, sought to slant issues according to their own value system. Of particular interest is Noonan's exploration of the ways in which some periodical fiction disrupted the seemingly unified, genteel \"voice\" of the magazine by presenting regional dialects and inflections that appeared in stories outside the magazine's preferred purview. Noonan discusses the large role women writers had in advancing American fiction, addresses the changing character of the magazine as it shifted focus from regionalism to high literary realism, reviews how Edward King's ethnographic study \u003cem\u003eThe Great South, \u003c\/em\u003e published alongside plantation myth fiction, helped create the post-Civil War South in the minds of \u003cem\u003eScribner's- Century's \u003c\/em\u003enorthern readership, and looks at how the magazine, by the mid-1890s, lost its dominance in the American cultural arena.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fascinating book is a unique contribution to the emerging field of periodical studies and will pique the interest of literary and cultural historians and scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noonan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606350633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606350638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011","brand":"Noonan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659479462143,"sku":"9781606350638","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-the-century-illustrated-monthly-noonan-9781606350638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}