Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture in Canada 1925-1960

1925-1960 年加拿大的杂志、旅行和中庸文化

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I02171X/1
负责人：
Faye Hammill
金额：
$ 27.82万
依托单位：
University of Strathclyde
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI02171X%2F1
关键词：
Magazines Travel Middlebrow Culture Canada

项目摘要

This research focuses on an area of Canadian print culture which, though extremely influential, has been almost entirely neglected by critics: the middlebrow periodical market. It investigates the aspirational dimension of Canadian middlebrow culture, using magazine writing on travel as a focus. The aims are to understand the role of magazines in circulating fantasies of cosmopolitanism and upward mobility, to explore exchanges between anglophone and francophone cultures in the pages of magazines, and to examine the self-conscious ways in which the magazines place themselves and their readers in relation to the social and cultural hierarchies.In the earlier 20th century, Canadian literary and commercial discourses consistently highlighted Paris, London and New York as centres of culture and taste. Their desirability as travel destinations was enhanced by their combination of the exotic and the familiar; although culturally and linguistically intelligible places, they also focussed white Canadians' anxieties about their intimate yet vexed post/colonial relationships with America and Europe. The research explores the conflicted representation of European cities as centres of nostalgia and origin, on the one hand, and sites of urban sophistication, on the other. It also examines resonances with government-sponsored periodical advertising of Montreal as a city combining European flair with North American modernity. More broadly, the project traces the magazines' strategies for recasting geographical mobility as a form of upward mobility, and for distinguishing leisure travel from the enforced movement of migration and diaspora. It investigates how foreign and domestic travel were marketed using competing narratives of modernity versus pristine natural beauty, and how the presentation of travel and foreignness was inflected by the consumerist and nationalist agendas which, to varying extents, shaped all the magazines included in our study. Finally, it tests the hypothesis that travel and its associated narratives actually enabled important cultural exchanges within Canada, as magazines became key sites for interaction across linguistic boundaries. The method involves detailed study of advertisements, travel features and fictions of travel published between the 1920s and 1950s in La Revue Populaire, Chatelaine, Maclean's, the Canadian Home Journal, La Revue Moderne, Le Samedi, Saturday Night and Mayfair. Comparative readings will work along three axes: chronological (shifts over time), geographical (destinations represented), and cultural (francophone / anglophone magazines). The magazines will be considered in the context of broader developments in transatlantic middlebrow culture, and in relation to Canadian travel writing and fictions of travel published in book format during the same period. The research begins in 1925, the year the word 'middlebrow' first appeared in print. The decade following WWI, a period of developing cultural nationalism, saw the establishment of several of the most important mainstream Canadian magazines, and the growth in circulation of existing titles. We will investigate exchanges of personnel, contributors and ideas among these magazines, and particularly across the language boundary. The study concludes in 1960, a point when the magazine market was undergoing significant transformation as middlebrow titles were merged, discontinued or reinvented in more popular formats. Our interpretations will be informed by an attention to the materiality of the page and an understanding of the practical imperatives of the periodical marketplace. The results of our research will resonate with current debates in Canada and the UK about the funding and subsidy of magazines and about language policy in relation to the press. The project arises from the AHRC Middlebrow Network, and will be conducted inpartnership with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) and Library Archives Canada.

这项研究的重点是加拿大印刷文化的领域，尽管它极具影响力，但几乎完全被批评家忽略了：中眉期刊市场。它使用杂志写作《旅行》作为重点，调查了加拿大中间文化的理想维度。目的是了解杂志在循环自我世界主义和向上流动的幻想中的作用，以探索杂志页面上的卷轴和法语文化之间的交流，并研究自我意识的方式，并研究自己和杂志在社会和文化中的一致性以及20世纪的杂志。巴黎，伦敦和纽约是文化和品味的中心。他们作为旅行目的地的可取性通过了异国情调和熟悉的结合来增强。尽管在文化上和语言上可以理解的地方，但他们也将加拿大人对与美国和欧洲的亲密而烦恼的后/殖民关系感到焦虑。该研究探讨了欧洲城市的冲突代表，一方面是怀旧和起源的中心，另一方面是城市成熟的地点。它还研究了政府赞助的蒙特利尔定期广告作为一个将欧洲风格与北美现代性相结合的城市的共鸣。从更广泛的角度来看，该项目追溯了杂志将地理流动性重新塑造为向上流动性的一种形式的策略，并将休闲旅行与执行移民和侨民的强化运动区分开来。它调查了如何使用现代性与原始自然美景的竞争性叙述来销售外国和家庭旅行，以及消费主义和民族主义议程如何影响旅行和外国的呈现，这些议程为改变范围而变化，塑造了我们研究中包括的所有杂志。最后，它检验了这样的假设，即旅行及其相关的叙述实际上使加拿大的重要文化交流成为了杂志成为跨语言边界互动的关键场所。该方法涉及详细研究在1920年代至1950年代在La Revue Populaire，Chatelaine，MacLean's，Canadian Home Journal，La Revue Moderne，Le Samedi，Le Samedi，Saturday Night和Mayfair的广告，旅行特征和旅行小说。比较读数将沿三个轴工作：按时间顺序（随时间变化），地理（代表目的地）和文化（法语 /英语杂志）。这些杂志将在跨大西洋中间文化的更广泛发展的背景下进行考虑，以及在同一时期以书本格式出版的加拿大旅行写作和旅行小说有关。这项研究始于1925年，即“ Middle Brow”一年首次出现在印刷中。第二次世界大战后的十年是发展文化民族主义的时期，它建立了加拿大最重要的几个主流杂志，以及现有头衔流通的增长。我们将研究这些杂志，尤其是在语言边界的人员，贡献者和思想的交流。这项研究在1960年结束时，随着杂志市场的重大转变，随着中间人的头衔被合并，停产或以更受欢迎的格式进行了重大转变。我们的解释将通过关注页面的重要性以及对期刊市场实际需求的理解来告知我们的解释。我们的研究结果将引起加拿大和英国的当前辩论，内容涉及杂志的资金和补贴以及与新闻界有关的语言政策。该项目来自AHRC Middlebrow网络，将与加拿大写作研究合作社（CWRC）和加拿大图书馆档案馆进行伙伴关系。