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Between 1880 and 1920, newspapers, magazines, and journals figured as the most important media for the public discussion of current events, as central nodes for the circulation of mass entertainments, and as windows into bustling art scenes. Periodicals thus presented themselves as crucial media for the negotiation and implementation of cultural modernization processes. Modernity and the Periodical Press explores this privileged role of the periodical press and focuses in particular on the often-neglected intersections between mass print culture and the practices of literary and artistic avant-gardes. In doing so, the volume examines a variety of materials that are shaped by the formats and themes of the periodical press, including Modernist little magazines, mass-marketed scrapbooks, advertising campaigns, comics, and more.

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Felix Brinker is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. His first book is Superhero Blockbusters: Seriality and Politics (2022). Ruth Mayer holds the chair of American Studies at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. Her most recent book publications are Serial Fu Manchu: The Chinese Super-Villain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology (2014) and the anthology Modernities and Modernization in North America (2019).

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