Little magazines made modernism happen. This collection offers a reconsideration of little magazines' integral role in the development of modernism. Essays on avant-garde, literary, political, regional, and African-American little magazines offer diverse approaches: discussions of material practices; analyses of the relationship between little magazines and popular audiences; examinations of correspondences between texts and images; feminist modifications of literary history; and reflections on the emerging field of periodical studies.

Suzanne W. Churchill is Associate Professor of English at Davidson College, North Carolina, USA. Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA.

Contents: Preface, Mark Morrisson; Introduction, Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible. Part I Negotiations: Lines of engagement: rhythm, reproduction and the textual dialogues of early modernism, Faith Binckes; The cosmopolitan Midland and the academic writer, Tom Lutz; The marriage of Rogue and The Soil, Jay Bochner; The Dial, The Little Review, and the dialogues of modernism, Alan Golding. Part II Editorial Practices: Poetry's opening door: Harriet Munroe and American modernism, John Timberman Newcomb; Women editors and little magazines in the Harlem renaissance, Jayne Marek; Suffragism, imagism and the 'cosmic poet': scientism and spirituality in The Freewoman and The Egoist, Bruce Clarke; Epilogue: how poetic authority became authoritarian, Joyce Wexler. Part III Identities: Black and tan: racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and Topaz, Caroline Goeser; The lying game: Others and the great spectra hoax of 1917, Suzanne W. Churchill; 'Life is real and life is earnest': Mike Gold, Claude McKay and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adam McKible; Afterword: small magazines, large ones, and those in-between, Robert Scholes; Appendices; Index.