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Realism and the Discursive Dynamics of the Popular Periodical, 1900–1930
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 46, Number 2, June 2013
- pp. 123-145
- 10.1353/mos.2013.0015
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay explores the material situation of literary realism within the competing articulations of real-ness characterizing the mass-disseminated periodical in the early twentieth century. Drawing on Ladies’ Home Journal and The Farmer’s Wife, I demonstrate the role of modern periodical structure in framing, refining, and stretching boundaries of “the real.”