Les digestes au Canada. Le condensé d'un siècle d'histoire
In the spring of 2024, with the disappearance of the Canadian’s Reader’s Digest, a chapter ends for Reader's Digest magazine, which had launched its two French and English Canadian subsidiaries in July 1947 and February 1948. Founded near New York in 1922, the Reader's Digest had an early...
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Dalhousie University
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Belphégor |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/6729 |
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| Summary: | In the spring of 2024, with the disappearance of the Canadian’s Reader’s Digest, a chapter ends for Reader's Digest magazine, which had launched its two French and English Canadian subsidiaries in July 1947 and February 1948. Founded near New York in 1922, the Reader's Digest had an early presence in Canada, and took advantage of WWII to expand its reputation and in the post-war years try to blend into the Canadian cultural landscape – even if it wasn't until the 1970s that the two subsidiaries began to emancipate themselves somewhat from the tutelage of the parent company. Reader's Digest's history is well-known, but that of a dozen Canadian digests inspired by the American monthly is much less so. These digests act as a seismograph of mid-twentieth-century Canadian history. From format to condensed form, from price to paper quality, this article also endeavours to identify the characteristics of this “literary genre” of the past century, in order to propose a viable definition of it. |
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| ISSN: | 1499-7185 |