FYI - another event at Liverpool John Moores University
Date: Tuesday 13th December 5.30-7pm
Room: 1.27, John Foster Building.
Prof Faye Hammill
‘Magazines and transatlantic style’
This talk examines society and smart magazines in the earlier twentieth century, considering the ways in which they disseminated a notion of transatlantic elite style. It will start with a short overview of American, Canadian and British titles, pointing to their interrelationships and mutual influence. For example, Toronto's Mayfair magazine was modelled at once on Tatler in the UK and on Vanity Fair in the US, while titles such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Country Life were published in both British and American editions. These magazines can be understood as part of an international print network which publicised the activities and formed the tastes of a transatlantic leisure class, yet were simultaneously embedded in specific national and local contexts. The main case study for the paper will be Mayfair, with a focus on the way it negotiated between its foreign models and its nationalist purpose. The talk will end with some broader suggestions about methods for comparing periodicals across national borders.
Faye Hammill is Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde. She has recently held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project on "Noël Coward, print culture and popularity." She is the author of five monographs, most recently Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture (2015), co-authored with Michelle Smith. She also has a book on Modernism's Print Cultures, co-authored with Mark Hussey, forthcoming in 2016 in Bloomsbury's 'New Modernisms' series. She founded the AHRC Middlebrow Network in 2008."
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