World Through A Monocle: The New Yorker At Midcentury; Author: Corey, Mary F.; Paperback

Author: Corey, Mary F.
Paperback
272 pages
Published: April 2000
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674002083

Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a niche of potent cultural authority. In The World through a Monocle, Mary Corey mines The New Yorker's editorial voice, journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth the preoccupations, values, and conflicts of its readers, editors, and contributors. She delineates its effort to fuse liberal ideals with aspirations to high social status, finds the magazine's blind spots with regard to women and racial and ethnic stereotyping, and explores both its concern with elite consumption and its contempt for mass production and popular advertising.Viewing the world through a monocle, those who createdThe New Yorker magazine was highly influential in post-World War II culture. Mary Corey mines the magazine's editorial voice, journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoon and poetry to unearth the preoccupations, values and conflicts of its readers, editors and contributors.