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What was the relationship between mass culture, corporate capitalism and the new middle class? This article offers an alternative perspective to Richard Ohmann's seminal work on this question and in doing so redefines these concepts and offers a different way of thinking about the relationship between the rise of corporate capitalism and American democracy.
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Why is it important?
The article engages with the debate about the role of the new middle class in important developments during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as well as providing an alternative perspective on the rise of the first nationally oriented form of mass culture, the popular magazine.
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Important for scholars interested in mass culture, the new middle class and corporate capitalism.
Matthew Schneirov
Duquesne University
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This page is a summary of: POPULAR MAGAZINES, NEW LIBERAL DISCOURSE AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 1890s–1914, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, March 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1537781416000694.
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