Little Magazine: n. a noncommerical periodical of limited circulation, usually dedicated to publishing experimental art and literature and/or unconventional social ideas and political theories.

BEGINNING IN THE 1910's, a combination of new ideas and new technologies generated a proliferation of little magazines. These magazines made possible the revolutionary movement known as modernism .

TODAY, we are using the world-wide-web to produce a database dedicated to these important periodicals. Our website makes it possible to find information about little magazines in once central, accessible location.

LITTLE MAGAZINES housed revolutionary artistic and political movements ranging from Imagism, Futurism, Cubism, Surrealism and Dada to Anarchism, Socialism, Communism and Feminism. Little magazines provided a stage for modernist innovations ranging from New Art and the New Music, to the New Negro and the New Woman. Little magazines championed individual liberties ranging from free verse, to free speech and free love.

THIS WEBSITE houses bibliographic information about selected modernist little magazines. It aims to recover links between the various writers, artists, activists, and movements that constitute the web of modernism.

THIS WEBSITE has been compiled by undergraduates at Davidson College enrolled in the course ENG487: The Web of Modernism. This site is maintained by Suzanne W. Churchill, Associate Professor of English, and hosted by Davidson College.

The material used in this site has been gathered in good faith according to fair use standards, with full citations of all sources. Whenever possible, we have attempted to secure permissions for any material that exceeds "fair use" standards. Because of the ephemeral nature of little magazines, it is often difficult to determine who, if anyone, holds the rights to materials published therein. In such instance, text and images will be considered on loan until someone objects.