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- catalog abstract "At midcentury, The New Yorker magazine occupied an unsurpassed niche of cultural authority, wielding a power without precedent in the magazine market. In this period a small but influential community of readers relied on The New Yorker as a guide to the emerging postwar world, turning to it for information about Broadway theater, Parisian pret-a-porter, Italian Communism, the bombing of Bikini Atoll, English movies, and French wines. A well-known critic lamented that "certain groups have come to communicate almost exclusively in references to the [magazine's] sacred writings." The World through a Monocle is a study of these "sacred writings." Mary Corey mines the magazine's mix of journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth a kind of New Yorker Village - a locale of contradiction and delight, of self-importance and social justice. She exposes a magazine with blind spots in regard to women and to racial and ethnic stereotyping, but which nevertheless strove towards liberal ideals, publishing the work of Rachel Carson, John Hersey, Hannah Arendt, and others. She recreates an audience that devoured ads for luxury items while avidly absorbing social criticism and political engagement. Balancing the wish to live well with the aim to do good, The New Yorker provided what seemed like a coherent value system in an incoherent world.".
- catalog contributor b11066319.
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "At midcentury, The New Yorker magazine occupied an unsurpassed niche of cultural authority, wielding a power without precedent in the magazine market. In this period a small but influential community of readers relied on The New Yorker as a guide to the emerging postwar world, turning to it for information about Broadway theater, Parisian pret-a-porter, Italian Communism, the bombing of Bikini Atoll, English movies, and French wines. A well-known critic lamented that "certain groups have come to communicate almost exclusively in references to the [magazine's] sacred writings." The World through a Monocle is a study of these "sacred writings."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-242) and index.".
- catalog description "Mary Corey mines the magazine's mix of journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth a kind of New Yorker Village - a locale of contradiction and delight, of self-importance and social justice. She exposes a magazine with blind spots in regard to women and to racial and ethnic stereotyping, but which nevertheless strove towards liberal ideals, publishing the work of Rachel Carson, John Hersey, Hannah Arendt, and others. She recreates an audience that devoured ads for luxury items while avidly absorbing social criticism and political engagement. Balancing the wish to live well with the aim to do good, The New Yorker provided what seemed like a coherent value system in an incoherent world.".
- catalog description "Preface: First Things -- 1. The Lay of the Land -- 2. Beyond the Manhattan Skyline -- 3. Red Hunting and the New Yorker Village -- 4. Slouching toward Anti-Communism -- 5. The New Yorker in Black and White -- 6. The Romance of the Other -- 7. Managing with Servants -- 8. The War between Men and Women -- 9. Goods and Goodness -- Conclusion: Fault Lines.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 251 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "World through a monocle.".
- catalog identifier "0674961935 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "World through a monocle.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "World through a monocle.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "051 21".
- catalog subject "American newspapers Sections, columns, etc. Reviews.".
- catalog subject "New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) History.".
- catalog subject "PN4900.N35 C67 1999".
- catalog subject "Periodicals Publishing New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: First Things -- 1. The Lay of the Land -- 2. Beyond the Manhattan Skyline -- 3. Red Hunting and the New Yorker Village -- 4. Slouching toward Anti-Communism -- 5. The New Yorker in Black and White -- 6. The Romance of the Other -- 7. Managing with Servants -- 8. The War between Men and Women -- 9. Goods and Goodness -- Conclusion: Fault Lines.".
- catalog title "The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Reviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".