Tim Satterthwaite lectures on 20th-century art and design at the University of Brighton and Middlesex University, UK. He is the author of Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal (2020), and co-directed the Future States conference on the history of magazines with Andrew Thacker in 2020 (www.futurestates.org). Andrew Thacker is Professor of 20th-Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK and co-director of its Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. He has written or edited many books on modernism, including three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13).
Three shifts mark Magazines and Modern Identities in expanding periodical studies: from “small” to “big” embedded in key historical turns; from textual to visual and contextual readings; and from Europe- and US-centred studies to cultural displacements. With interdisciplinary focus that defies fixed definitions, these thorough chapters ask: whose modernity and identity was it, and why? * Evanghelia Stead, Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture, UVSQ Paris-Saclay, and Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France * Working the nexus between innovations in illustrated magazines and modern identity formation around the globe, this book strides forcefully into the most vital questions in modern periodical studies. How did illustrated magazines enable readers to envision themselves as cosmopolitans or nationalists, as modern people or traditionalists? More profoundly, how do media set the horizons for articulating a self under the pressures of modern history? These chapters engage these questions with vigour, ingenuity, and impressive detail. * Patrick Collier, Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University, USA; Author of Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2021) *