This special issue of JMPS grows out of a conference organized in October 2018 at Aix-Marseille Université, entitled “Mediating American Modernist Literature. The Case of/for Big Magazines, 1880–1960.”1 Its aim was threefold: first, to investigate a wide range of big magazines from the perspective of modernist studies; second, to illustrate, in so doing, innovative approaches and methodologies; and, third, to reflect on the connection between American modernist literature and mass-market magazines over a period of eighty years, from the emergence of industrialized journalism and the “fully-fledged magazine” (Scholes)2 to the rise of television and the related decline of the magazine as “the major form of repeated cultural experience for people in the United States.”3 The conference was inspired by recent research on modernist periodicals, which had sought to demonstrate the importance of big magazines as a venue for literary and aesthetic innovation or, as Donal Harris puts...
Introduction
ANNE REYNÈS-DELOBEL is an Associate Professor of American Literature at Aix-Marseille Université and a member of the Research Center on the Anglophone World (LERMA UR 853). Her research focuses on American modernisms and the international avant-gardes, and more specifcally on their transatlantic circulation in the interwar period. She is the author with Mary Ann Caws of Glorieuses modernistes. Art, écriture et modernité au féminin (Presses universitaires de Liège, 2016). She has edited with Céline Mansanti “Early American Surrealisms, 1920–1940, Miranda 14, 2017, and with Deborah Clarke «Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers», E-rea 16.2, 2019. The current president of the Kay Boyle Society (ALA and SSAWAA), she has recently translated Kay Boyle's Year before Last (1932) into French (as Fuir devant demain, UGA Editions, 2019).
BENOÎT TADIÉ is a Professor of American Studies at the Université Rennes 2, whose research focuses on English and American modernism, the work of James Joyce, and American hardboiled/noir fiction. His books include L'Exérience moderniste anglo-américaine 1908–1922: Formes, idéologies, combats (Didier, 1999), James Joyce/Dubliners (Didier, 2000), Le polar américain, la modernité et le mal (Presses universitaires de France, 2006) and Front criminel: Une histoire du polar américain de 1919 à nos jours (Presses universitaires de France, 2018). He has edited the volumes Revues modernistes anglo-américaines: Lieux d’échange, lieux d'exil (Ent'revues, 2006) and, with Hélène Aji and Céline Mansanti, Revues modernistes, revues engagées (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011). He has also translated James Joyce's Dubliners into French (as Gens de Dublin, GF, 1994) and recently edited a collection of W. R. Burnett's fiction (in French), Underworld: Romans noirs (Gallimard, 2019).
CÉCILE COTTENET is a Professor of American Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, and a member of the Research Center on the Anglophone World (LERMA UR 853). Her research areas include African American studies and print culture, more specifically focusing on publishing history, and her current projects develop a transatlantic perspective on the Franco-American circulation of texts and books. She is the editor of Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and has published, in French, a study of the publication history of Charles W. Chesnutt (Une histoire éditoriale: The Conjure Woman de Charles W. Chesnutt, ENS Editions, 2012). Following on from her latest monograph, Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade: American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency (Routledge, 2017) on the role of literary agents in the post-World War II transatlantic marketplace, she is currently coordinating a project on cultural mediators of US literature in France in the twentieth century.
Anne Reynès-Delobel, Benoît Tadié, Cécile Cottenet; Introduction. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 1 July 2020; 11 (1): v–xix. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.11.1.v
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