The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

by Gardner, Jared

• ISBN13: 9780252036705
• ISBN10: 0252036700
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-17
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share their different perspectives. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culturereexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Literary Museum and the Unsettling of the Early American Novel	p. 1
American Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Transatlantic Periodical Culture in the Eighteenth Century	p. 31
The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Publishers, Printers, and Editors	p. 69
The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Readers, Correspondents, and Contributors	p. 103
The Early American Magazine in the Nineteenth Century: Brown, Rowson, and Irving	p. 134
Conclusion: What Happened Next	p. 169
Notes	p. 177
Index	p. 199
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