Project MUSE®: The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2010) through current issueLatest Articles: The Journal of Modern Periodical StudiesTWOProject MUSE®The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies2152-92721947-6574Latest articles in The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985497
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In the first issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Harriet Monroe framed her new magazine as a protected site for verse and as a "place of refuge, a green isle in the sea" for its subscribers.1 Suzanne Churchill reads this manifesto as Monroe's attempt to construct Poetry as a bounded, interior space for poetry, contrasting it with the greater editorial openness of Alfred Kreymborg's Others.2 However, Anne Raine notes that Monroe's emphasis on Poetry as a refuge aligns with the contemporary discourse of conservation, with both wilderness and poetry as special national resources that Monroe was engaged in protecting.3 In many of her Poetry editorials of the 1910s and early 1920s, Monroe explicitly invokes American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmall"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist2026-03-19text/htmlen-US"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®970552026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Reinscribing "Break of Day in the Trenches": Isaac Rosenberg in Poetry Magazine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985498
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In her book on Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine, Ellen Williams identifies 1916 as a "bad year" for Poetry, lamenting, "All the discoveries had been fished out of the sea."1 Yet in December 1916, the magazine published Isaac Rosenberg's quintessential World War I poem, "Break of Day in the Trenches" (see figure 1).2 It was printed alongside its companion piece, "Marching." Only a handful of Rosenberg's poems appeared in periodicals, and Poetry published two of them. In fact, Paul Fussell extols "Break of Day in the Trenches" as "the greatest poem of the war."3 Similarly, Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, in their history of Poetry in letters, call it "one of the strongest poems to come out of the war."4 The poem
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallReinscribing "Break of Day in the Trenches": Isaac Rosenberg in Poetry Magazine2026-03-19text/htmlen-USReinscribing "Break of Day in the Trenches": Isaac Rosenberg in Poetry Magazine2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®932802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Juvenile Enculturation in a Time of Change: The Early Years of the Boys' Cinema Weekly
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985499
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When Boys' Cinema Weekly launched in December 1919, advertisements promised a paper unlike anything else on the British market. "Up-to-date and really original, this sparkling new production gives you pages and pages of daring adventure stories, real life thrills, and film humour illustrated, with dozens of real photographs of all your favourite heroes of the screen."1The publisher delivered on its pledge. Bucking the dominantly female-skewed trend of Britain's burgeoning slate of film magazines,
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Issue 1, 13 December 1919. Western stars and iconography received especial prominence from the outset. Source: author's personal collection. The Boys' Cinema Weekly. Copyright © Rebellion Publishing Ltd. All Rights
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallJuvenile Enculturation in a Time of Change: The Early Years of the Boys' Cinema Weekly2026-03-19text/htmlen-USJuvenile Enculturation in a Time of Change: The Early Years of the Boys' Cinema Weekly2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1373232026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19H.D., Richard Aldington, and The Egoist as Imagist Autobiography
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985500
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As the author of HERmione, Asphodel, Bid Me to Live, and a series of autobiographical fiction throughout her life, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) offers a clear example of a modernist autofictional writer. Many of her published and unpublished narratives share autofiction's contradictory and hybrid elements: experimental genres and forms, a blending of lived and imaginary experiences, and a shared identity between author, narrator, and/or character that is nonetheless non-identical.1 Distributed across overlapping plots and a sestina-like complexity of names circulating through various romans à clef, H.D.'s autofictional selves are further destabilized by the proliferation of her pseudonyms, nicknames, and alter egos
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallH.D., Richard Aldington, and The Egoist as Imagist Autobiography2026-03-19text/htmlen-USH.D., Richard Aldington, and The Egoist as Imagist Autobiography2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1023372026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985501
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Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region ("Periodicals") is an online portal launched in May 2024 containing over 200 mostly Spanish-language digitized newspapers and magazines. The titles were published between 1850–1956, with the bulk of them published after 1910. Much of the digitized content—over 200,000 pages and 2,814 separate issues—is made available online for the first time. Focusing on lesser-known titles, the portal strongly supplements existing digitized periodicals archives of the southern borderlands.Accessed free of charge at latinonewspapers.uh.edu, the Periodicals portal was built by the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (informally known as "Recovery") and the US Latino
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallPeriodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region (review)2026-03-19text/htmlen-USPeriodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region (review)2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®90682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985502
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In an often referred to chapter of A Moveable Feast (Scribner, 1964, 2009), Ernest Hemingway frames his initial conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald about writing and publishing short fiction. According to Hemingway, Fitzgerald conceded that when he submitted short stories to the Saturday Evening Post, he "changed them […] knowing exactly how they must make twists that made them into saleable magazine stories" (131). Hemingway relates being shocked by Fitzgerald's declaration, claiming he shot back that altering one's art in this way would be "whoreing" [sic] (131). Fitzgerald agreed, says the memoirist, but maintained he must make such changes to sell magazine fiction so that he would have "money ahead" to write
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallCirculating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)2026-03-19text/htmlen-USCirculating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®173192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985503
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Print cultural scholar Sigrid Anderson's much-awaited new book Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) finally gives an important turn-of-the-century California monthly the attention it deserves. Land of Sunshine (1894–1923) published many of the authors whom we now associate with regionalism and writing about the west—for example, "Sui Sin Far" (Edith Eaton), Mary Austin, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Jack London, Ina Coolbrith—as well as some less familiar but equally ambitious authors like Constance Goddard DuBois and Beatriz de Luna. Initially, issues contained only one or two short stories—maybe two to three pages in length—but
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/473/image/coversmallLand of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)2026-03-19text/htmlen-USLand of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®123952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19