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The author ingeniously weaves together discussion of the magazines and their respective editors. This sharply written book sheds significant light on how gender informed author-editor-reader relations in twentieth-century magazine publishing. Highly recommended. --Choice A beautifully crafted homage to those editors and to the American literary aesthetic they created. . . . an 'insider view' that enriches our understanding of women editors in creating an American literature that otherwise wouldn't have existed. . . . Eldred opens up fascinating new territory for understanding the inner workings of a magazine that was widely regarded as a woman's magazine at this time. --American Journalism Did the twentieth-century American novel develop solely as a pact between Maxwell Perkins and canonical writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe? Did the best periodical literature arise between Harold Ross and well-known essayists like E. B. White and James Thurber? Certainly the recognition of women writers has altered this once accepted narrative. And here readers will also learn about the women editors who shaped American literature. --Katherine H. Adams, Loyola University New Orleans In recovering and re-visioning women's history, Eldred also calls into question the tendency of many social and literary histories to ignore the overlap between the kinds of authors and works published in 'literary' magazines and those published in what are conventionally seen as 'women's' magazines. While the book's focus is on the 'making of a 'New Yorker' ethos, ' among Eldred's key points is that this ethos was not created in a vacuum. --Feminist Collections Those who love magazines and magazine writing, their genres, production processes, publication magnates, and histories will find rich sustenance in Eldred's Literate Zeal. This revisionist history of magazines and magazine editing views the editing process through a gendered lens, inverting our expectations and stereotypes. Eldred argues that it was women as editors, in particular the New Yorker's Katharine S. White, who helped create and promote a form of periodical literature as high culture, which Eldred terms haute literacy. How their editorial work helped create this high-literate genre is a fascinating story. --Catherine L. Hobbs, University of Oklahoma

Many assume so-called smart magazines of the twentieth century catered to educated, sophisticated men, whereas women's periodicals appealed to female readers interested in fashion and manners. This informative study offers much evidence to the contrary. The author ingeniously weaves together discussion of the magazines and their respective editors [and] sheds significant light on how gender informed author-editor-reader relations in twentieth century magazine publishing. Highly recommended. --Choice

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Janet Carey Eldred is professor of English, affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the founding director of the Writing Initiative Studio in Engineering (WISE) at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Sentimental

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