The Modernist Journals Project (MJP) was created in 1995 at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in order to create a database of digitized periodicals connected with the period loosely associated with

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joined in 2003. The MJP's website states:

The Modernist Journals Project is a multi-faceted project that aims to be a major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.

We end at 1922 for both intellectual and practical reasons. The practical reason is that copyright becomes an issue with publications from 1923 onward. The intellectual reason is that most scholars consider modernism to be fully fledged in 1922, a date marked by the publication of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'', Virginia Woolf’s ''Jacob’s Room'', and T. S. Eliot's ''The Waste Land''. We believe the materials on the MJP website will show how essential magazines were to modernism's rise.

The journals that the MJP has digitized are all available to the public, for free, on its website, where PDFs of the following magazines can be downloaded:

Magazines covered

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1 & 2'' (1914-1915) * '' The Blue Review'' (1913) Initially called ''Rhythm'') * ''

Camera Work ''Camera Work'' was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. It presented high-quality photogravures by some of the most important photographers in the world, with the goal to establish photography as a ...

'' (1903-1917) * ''Coterie'' (1919-1921) * ''

The Crisis ''The Crisis'' is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Mi ...

: A Record of the Darker Races'' (1910-1922) * ''Dana: An Irish Magazine of Independent Thought'' (1904-1905) * '' The Dome: A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts'' (1897-1898) * ''

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'' (1914-1919) * ''

The English Review ''The English Review'' was an English-language literary magazine published in London from 1908 to 1937. At its peak, the journal published some of the leading writers of its day. History The magazine was started by 1908 by Ford Madox Hueffer (lat ...

'' (1908-1910) * ''The

Freewoman ''The Freewoman'' was a feminist weekly review published between 23 November 1911 and 10 October 1912, and edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe. Although ''The Freewoman'' published articles on women's waged work, housework, motherhood, t ...

'' (1911-1912) * ''

The Little Review ''The Little Review'', an American literary magazine founded by Margaret Anderson in Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building, published literary and art work from 1914 to May 1929. With the help of Jane Heap and Ezra Pound, Anderson created a maga ...

'' (1914-1922) * ''

The Masses ''The Masses'' was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published monthly in the United States from 1911 until 1917, when federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription. It was ...

'' (1911-1917) * ''

McClure's Magazine ''McClure's'' or ''McClure's Magazine'' (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism ( investigative, wat ...

'' (1900-1910) * ''

The New Age ''The New Age'' was a British weekly magazine (1894–1938), inspired by Fabian socialism, and credited as a major influence on literature and the arts during its heyday from 1907 to 1922, when it was edited by Alfred Richard Orage. It published ...

'' (1907-1922) * ''

The New Freewoman ''The New Freewoman'' was a monthly London literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and owned by Harriet Shaw Weaver. Initially, Rebecca West was in charge of the literary content of the magazine, but after meeting Ezra Pound at one of Violet ...

'' (1913) * '' Others: A Magazine of the New Verse'' (1915-1919) * ''The Owl'' (1919-1923) * '' Le Petit Journal des Refusees'' (1896) * '' Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'' (1912-1922) * '' Rhythm: Art Music Literature Quarterly'' (1911-1912) * ''

Scribner's Magazine ''Scribner's Magazine'' was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. ''Scribner's Magazine'' was the second magazine out of the Scribner's firm, after the publication of ' ...

'' (1910-1922) * ''

The Seven Arts ''The Seven Arts'', an early example of the Little Magazine, was edited by James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, and Van Wyck Brooks; it appeared monthly from November 1916 through October 1917. Jointly envisaged by Oppenheim and Frank, ''The Seven Arts'' ...

'' (1916-1917) * ''

The Smart Set ''The Smart Set'' was an American literary magazine, founded by Colonel William d'Alton Mann and published from March 1900 to June 1930. Its headquarters was in New York City. During its Jazz Age heyday under the editorship of H. L. Mencken and G ...

'' (1913-1922) * ''The Tyro: A Review of the Arts of Painting Sculpture and Design'' (1921-1922) * ''Wheels: An Anthology of Verse'' (1916-1921) * ''The 1910 Collection'' (single issues of 24 magazines published "on or about December 1910")

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