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Faye Hammill - Travel as Nationalist Practice

First post and replies | Last post by Faye Hammill, 11 months ago

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Hi Faye, I really enjoyed the presentation and the great images from these magazines. I had two questions: 1. I thought the point you ended with, about the rhetoric of mobility that runs through these magazines and links to forms of national identity, was fascinating and wondered whether there are examples of this sort of theme that also appears in the fiction that appears in the magazines ? (I think you said that Canadian Home Journal and La revue contained fiction, but not Mayfair?) 2. About the price/circulation relationship: you said that Mayfair was the most expensive (25c, while th...

By Andrew Th...

11 months ago
@jaleen I absolutely love your post with the ethnographic data! Thank you so much. I have come across so many theoretical accounts of how nationalism and support for empire worked together in Canadian political discourse, with no contradiction between them. But it is hard to understand precisely how this plays out in daily life when you're not Canadian and didn't grow up there. So I find your examples and details invaluable. I particularly like the idea of the 'mobility class', which I think would be very useful to several of us in this conference. I'm intrigued too by the idea of the rugged ...

By Faye Hamm...

11 months ago
@apelizza I'd offer a thought too on why Canadian magazine covers were illustrated, since this happens to be my primary research specialty. Before halftone reproduction, all images were illustrated, and in the United States and in Great Britain, there was quite a lot of national pride in illustration as an art form. This was connected in the 1890s to the fad for the "book beautiful" and general Arts + Crafts ethos of the handmade, especially as new photomechanical reproduction took over (1885 to 1895). At the same time, photography was clumsy and limited (B&W for example), and halftones...

By Jaleen Gr...

11 months ago
This is so helpful Jaleen: thank you. I like what you say about visual literacies especially. I have been finding your published work in this area extremely illuminating too. I think we need more collaboration between design history, art history, and literary studies in our magazines research.

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Circulation and diasporas

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Role of psychology

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Women's mobility

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Newspaper supplements

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Faye Hammill: literary representations of travel

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