The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

About the Author, Further Reading, Production Notes, Back Cover

Jared Gardner is an associate professor of English and film studies at Ohio State University and the author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845. the history of communication Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60 Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press Edited by John C. Nerone “We Called Each Other Comrade”: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers Allen Ruff WCFL, Chicago’s Voice of Labor, 1926–78 Nathan Godfried Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Alex Carey; edited by Andrew Lohrey Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line Yuezhi Zhao Print Culture in a Diverse America Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90 John M. Coward E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers Gerald J. Baldasty Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography Edited by Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times Robert W. McChesney Silencing the Opposition: Antinuclear Movements and the Media in the Cold War Andrew Rojecki Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres Rosa A. Eberly Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers David Paul Nord From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press Doug Underwood The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century Jill Hills Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. Media Power in Central America Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life Michael Dawson How Free Can the Press Be? Randall P. Bezanson Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James Journalism in the Movies Matthew C. Ehrlich Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere David S. Allen Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary Chad Raphael Women Making News: Gender and the Women’s Periodical Press in Britain Michelle Tusan Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s Inger Stole Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media Laura Stein Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment Duane C. S. Stoltzfus Waves of Opposition: The Struggle for Democratic Radio, 1933–58 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf Prologue to a Farce: Democracy and Communication in America Mark Lloyd Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike Deepa Kumar The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914–1918 Dale Zacher Telecommunications and Empire Jill Hills Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression David Welky Normative Theories of the Media Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L. Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Robert A. White Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States Hugh Richard Slotten Muting Israeli Democracy: How Media and Cultural Policy Undermine Free Expression Amit M. Schejter Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies Edited by Linda Steiner and Clifford Christians Refiguring Mass Communication: A History Peter Simonson Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest Matthew C. Ehrlich Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss Doug Underwood Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change Emile G. McAnany The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture Jared Gardner The University of Illinois Press is a founding member of the Association of American University Presses. Composed in 10/13 Sabon LT Std by Celia Shapland at the University of Illinois Press Manufactured by Sheridan Books, Inc. University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu AMERICAN LITERATURE / COMMUNICATION HISTORY “The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture “The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an “The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an “The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national period, which largely has been viewed not only as a failure but period...