Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960

by Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith

Book Overview

A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Images of speed and flight dominated the pages of the new mass-market periodicals. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s alongside an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381402
• ISBN13: 9781781381403
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 6.4"