Cultivating the Taste of the Nation: The National Council of Women of Canada and the Campaign against “Pernicious” Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Kinahan, Anne-Marie

doi:10.22230/cjc.2007v32n2a1893

Canadian Journal of Communication

2007

DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2007v32n2a1893

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Cultivating the Taste of the Nation: The National Council of Women of Canada and the Campaign against “Pernicious” Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Anne-Marie Kinahan

Abstract: This article analyzes the campaign against "pernicious" literature under-

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“…Moreover, leisure activities especially were targeted as both opportunities to be tempted by the pleasures and evils of the city and a possibility for redemption. Reading appropriate litera-ture and engaging in appropriate activities afforded possibilities for asserting how modern life ought to be lived (Kinahan, 2007;Pederson, 1996). The Lord's Day Alliance in particular was largely successful in keeping the Sabbath a day of rest in Canada, especially in Ontario.…”

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TheGlobeon Saturday, TheWorldon Sunday: Toronto Weekend Editions and the Influence of the American Sunday Paper, 1886-1895

Gabriele

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2009

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Between 1886 and 1895, the Sunday newspaper in U.S. cities became a cauldron for an emerging mass, popular culture—one with reach into Canada. The concurrent development of weekend newspapers in Toronto, Canada, distinguished local innovations against the unspecified, general influence of the “American Sunday paper.” The Sunday World and the Saturday Globe followed and refuted, respectively, the ideal set by the American Sunday paper, but together defined Canadian weekend leisure reading. The reference in Canadian newspapers to an idealized American Sunday model offers an example of an emergent continental mass popular culture where cultural forms circulated, and were transformed, producing interesting local specificities.Résumé : Entre 1886 et 1895, dans de nombreuses villes américaines, le journal du dimanche est devenu le foyer d’une culture de masse émergeante dont l’influence s’est étendue jusqu’au Canada. À Toronto, le journal du samedi et du dimanche se sont développés simultanément, engendrant certaines innovations locales effectuées par rapport à l’influence générale du « journal du dimanche américain ». Ainsi, le Sunday World et le Saturday Globe ont suivi l’idéal prôné par le journal du dimanche américain, bien que par la suite ils l'aient délaissé. Ensemble, ces deux journaux ont défini la lecture de loisir de fin de semaine au Canada. Dans les commentaires sur le modèle idéalisé du journal du dimanche américain offerts par les journaux canadiens, on perçoit une culture de masse émergeante où l'expression culturelle a pu circuler et se transformer, avec comme résultat la création de spécificités locales de grand intérêt.

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TheGlobeon Saturday, TheWorldon Sunday: Toronto Weekend Editions and the Influence of the American Sunday Paper, 1886-1895

Gabriele

Moore

2009

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Reading as war effort: the National Home Reading Union during the First World War

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Black Canadians in theCanadian Journal of Communication: A Critical Reading of Language and Voice in Its Publishing History

Thompson

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Canadian Journal of Communication

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Background: This article is a response to #CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian style. It probes what articles about Black Canadians have been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication’s (CJC’s) history, and what has been the focus of these articles in terms of race, racism, and colonialism. Analysis: Using critical discourse analysis, this article examines language and voice in seven articles that focus on media representation of Blackness and/or Black visibility/invisibility. Conclusion and Implications: Over a 20-year period, the CJC’s corpus on Black Canadians changed. The articles moved from simplified or stereotypical representations of Black culture to giving agency and voice to a heterogeneity of Black experiences. This article asks readers to consider how and when Black Canada will move from the margins of Canadian communication studies to the centre.

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Cultivating the Taste of the Nation: The National Council of Women of Canada and the Campaign against “Pernicious” Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Abstract: This article analyzes the campaign against "pernicious" literature under-

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

TheGlobeon Saturday, TheWorldon Sunday: Toronto Weekend Editions and the Influence of the American Sunday Paper, 1886-1895

TheGlobeon Saturday, TheWorldon Sunday: Toronto Weekend Editions and the Influence of the American Sunday Paper, 1886-1895

Reading as war effort: the National Home Reading Union during the First World War

Black Canadians in theCanadian Journal of Communication: A Critical Reading of Language and Voice in Its Publishing History

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