Reading the Radical American Periodical

Victoria Bazin,Sue Currell,E James West

doi:10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.018

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Abstract

This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture. As many of the subsequent papers demonstrate, notions of radicalism as expressed in American periodicals often necessitate(d) looking beyond the nation state. Similarly, this issue highlights the fluidity of ‘radicalism’ as a temporal and technological concept; relatable not only to literary content, but also to graphic design, editorial control, foreign language use, subscription policies, and other aspects of production, dissemination and reception. Thematically and conceptually diverse, the articles collated here provide a judicious intervention into the developing field of periodical studies.

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This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture
And conceptually diverse, the articles collated here provide a judicious intervention into the developing field of periodical studies
While organisations and outlets such as the Research Society for American Periodicals and the Victorian Periodicals Review long predate their 2006 article in PMLA, Latham and Scholes argued that the convergence of different intellectual and technological trends in recent decades has contributed to the blossoming of a new scholarly discipline.[2]

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This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture. This issue highlights the fluidity of ‘radicalism’ as a temporal and technological concept; relatable to literary content, and to graphic design, editorial control, foreign language use, subscription policies, and other aspects of production, dissemination and reception.

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