WORLD THROUGH A MONOCLE : THE NEW YORKER AT MIDCENTURY

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 aspiration 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.