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From the Editor. James T. F. Tanner iii A New Generation of Reference Books on Newspapers Imaging a New Heaven on a New Earth: The Crayon and 19th-Century American Periodical Covers / Janice Simon 11 Illustrations after page 12 New Old Additions to the American Canon / Lawrence L. Berkove 25 "Magazines As a Powerful Element of Civilization": An Exploration of the Ideology of Literary Magazines, 1830-1850 / Cheryl D. Bohde 34 Scribner's Monthly and the "Pictorial
Representation of Life Walt Whitman, Free Love, and The Social Revolutionist / Kenneth M. Price 70 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Rochester (NY) Magazine Five O'Clock / Rodger L. Tarr 83 "Sal" Bernhardt and the Men about Town: Theatre Resources in Chic / Patricia Marks 86 Book Reviews Warner, The Letters of the Republic:
Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America
Ezra Greenspan 105 Periodical Miscellany 118
Willis Gaylord Clark: An Autobiographical Sketch / Joel Myerson 1 A Posthumous Assessment: The 1849-1850 Periodical Press Response to Edgar Allan Poe / Burton R. Pollin 6 Poe's "Autobiography": A New Exchange of Reviews Louisa May Alcott and the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette / Madeleine B. Stern 64; Illustration after page 78 Horace Scudder and Sarah Orne Jewett: Market Forces in Publishing in the 1890s / Ellery Sedgwick 79 The Making and Breaking of Chicago's America The Image of Blacks within Mormornism as Presented in the Church News (1978-1988) Newell G. Bringhurst 113 Book Reviews Alcott, Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers
of Louisa May Alcott. Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, 124 Periodical Miscellany. James T. F. Tanner, 154 A Selected List of Current Scholarship on American
Periodicals. Sam G. Riley, 163
Transatlantic Influences on the Reporting of Crime: England vs. America vs. Canada / Judith Knelman 1 "Consistent With Honor": The Anglo-American Press War over San Juan Island, 1859 / Richard D. Fulton 11 Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, and the Poetic Tradition in Two Nineteenth-Century Women's Magazines / Patricia Okker 32 Joaquin Miller's Charcoal Sketches: Women / Margaret Guilford-Kardell 43 The Nineteenth-Century Periodical Novel Continued: Bonfire of the Vanities in Rolling Stone / Michael Lund 51 Ernest Hemingway and Life: Consuming Revolutions / Daniel Morris 62 Democrats Abroad: Continental Literature and the American Bard in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review / Joshua David Scholnick 75 Newspapers and Printing Presses in Early Illinois / Terence A. Tanner 100 Book Reviews Lund, America's Continuing Story: An
Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850-1900 Scott Peeples 114 Magazine Week Profit Profiles, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Joseph P. Bernt 128 Douglas, The Smart Magazines: 50 Years
of Literary Revelry and High Jinks at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker,
Life, Esquire, and The Smart Set David E. E. Sloane 130 Books Received 133 About Our Contributors 140 A Selected List of Current Scholarship on American
Periodicals Sam G. Riley 143
A New Englander's Obituary Eulogy of Poe / Burton R. Pollin 1 Thoreau's Reputation in the Major Magazines, 1862-1900: A Summary and Index / Daniel A. Wells 12 Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals / Allene Cooper 24 Idella Pumell's PALMS and Godfather Witter Bynne /
All the News That Fits in Eight Pages: The Palestine
Daily Herald as an Artifact of a Community's Culture Mixed Messages: Representations of Consumption and Anti-Consumption in The New Yorker Magazine: 1945-1952 / Mary F. Corey 78 From Gutenberg to Gigabytes: The Electronic Periodical Comes of Age / Karen Rupp-Serrano 96 Reviews About Our Contributors 134
Editorial Politics in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno / Sheila Post-Lauria 1 Expanding the Scope of Periodical History for Literary Studies: Irving Bacheller and His Newspaper Fiction Syndicate / Charles Johanningsmeier 14 "Nature Was Her Lady's Book": Ladies' Magazines, American Indians, and Gender, 1820-1859 / Linda M. Clemmons 40 Virtuous and Vicious: The Dual Portrayal of Women in Colonial Newspapers / David A. Copeland 59 From Educated Citizen to Educated Consumer: The Good Citizenship and Pro-Advertising Campaigns in The Woman's Home Companion, 1920-1938 / Mary Ellen Zuckerman 86 The North American Review, 1815-1835: The Invention of the American Past / Etsuko Taketani 111 Reviews About Our Contributors Kenneth Robert Price 147 A Selected List of Current Scholarship on American
Periodicals Sam G. Riley 149
Who Brings Home the Bacon? Shakespeare and
Turn-of-the-Century American
Authorship Little Magazines and the Emergence of Modernism in the Fin de Siecle Melinda Knight 29 Cities of Paradise, Comrade Kingdoms, and the Worlds of Light: Some Versions of the Socialist Utopia in The Comrade (1901-1905) Kenneth Payne 46 Against Novels: Fanny Fem's Newspaper Fictions and the Reform of Print Culture Claire C. Pettengill 61 The Editor's Desk at Sartain's Magazine:
1849-1851 Some Perilous Stuff: What the Religious Reviewers Really Said about The Scarlet Letter Lisa Herb Smith 135 Reviews Mitchell, The New Girl: Girls' Culture in
England, 1880-1915 About Our Contributors Stacy Erickson 163
Colonizing the Coffee Table-- National Geographic Magazine and Erasure of Difference in the Representation of Women Jessamyn Neuhaus 1 Voice As a Determinant of Literary Journalism: Use of Fictitious Literary Characters by American Newspaper Columnists Sam G. Riley 27 The Magazine As Mentor: A Turn-of-the-Century
Handwritten Magazine
by St. Louis Women Authors What's Old Is New: The Need for Historical
Inspiration Review Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding
Davis About Our Contributors Stacy Erickson 90
Transitional Values in American Periodicals: Sea Stories and National Identity in the Philadelphia Monthly Magazine (1827), the Bower of Taste (1828), and New England Magazine (1832) / William E. Lenze, 1 A Firestorm of Criticism: Metcalfe and the Theatrical Syndicate, 1904-1905 / Patricia Marks, 15 Mrs. Hale on Mrs. Stowe and Slavery / Beverly Peterson, 30 Mrs. Muzzy--Who Was She? In Search of a Nineteenth-Century Woman Editor / Sandra Roff and Douglas Duchin, 45 A Front Seat to Lizzie Borden: Julian Ralph, Literary Journalism, and the Construction of Criminal Fact / Karen S. H. Roggenkamp, 60 Vice Versa:America’s First Lesbian Magazine / / Rodger Streitmatter, 78 Reviews About Our Contributors. Stacy Erickson, 110 American Periodicals: A Selected Checklist of Scholarship and Criticism, 1995-1998. by Sam Riley, p. 112 Cumulative Index, Volume 1-7 (1991-1997), Author,
Subject, and Title Index. by Stacy Erickson, 121
The "Missing" Version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Business Man" J. E. Reiny 1 Garrison, Milton, and the Rhetoric of Demonization David Boocker 15 The Slave's Friend: An Abolitionist Magazine for Children Christopher D. Geist 27 George Eliot, Realism, and the American Press V. Griffith 36 "Applying the Standards of Intrinsic Excellence": Nationalism and Arnoldian Cultural Valuation in The Century Magazine J. Arthur Bond 55 From Ghosting to Free-Lancing: Mary Margaret McBride Covers Royalty and Radio Rex for the Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Home Companion, and Cosmopolitan (1925-1935) Beverly G. Merrick 74 About Our Contributors Tracy Turner 97
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, the Daily Alta California, and the Tradition of American Humor Susan Belasco 1 Bringing Down Holy Science: The North American Review
and Jacksonian Scientific Inquiry James V. Werner 27 A Progressive Klan: What Happens When a News Subject
Controls Its Image Don Walden 57 Langston Hughes' Jesse B. Semple Columns as
Literary Journalism
Sam G. Riley 63 An Unnoticed Satirical Poem: Reviewing Dickens's
American Notes
in a Major American Magazine 79 About Our Contributors Tracy Turner 96 Annual Selected Bibliography of Scholarship on American
Periodicals, 1997-2000 Kim Martin Long 98
"Domesticity and Women's Collective Agency: Contribution
and
Collaboration in America's First Successful Women's
Magazine Amy Aronson 1 The Offending Hand of War in Harper's Weekly
Valerie DeBrava 49 The Creation of a Public Persona in the Poetry of Anna
Cora Mowatt “These Days of Double Dealing”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Business of Magazine Publishing Thomas F. Marvin 81 Seventy-five Years of The New Yorker Cartoons: A
History Steven H. Gale 95 Reviews About Our Contributors 148 Recent Scholarship on American Periodicals, 1998-2001
Kim Martin
Long 151
Special Issue:
Periodical Research in the American
Classroom Articles A Revolutionary Aim: The Rhetoric of Temperance in the Anglo-African
Magazine Shelley Block 9 Using Magazines in Undergraduate Literature Courses Ellery Sedgwick 25 The Evolution of Howells's Realism: “Suburban
Sketches” George Lanum 34 Periodical Research: Open Sesame Janet Gabler-Hover 40 "”Vice Breeds Crime”: The “Germs” of Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson Merit Kaschig 49 The Politics of the Picturesque: The Marches Settle Van Rensselaer's New York City Brandon Rogers, 75 Juxtaposition and Serendipity: Teaching Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Susan Belasco 89 "How the great do tumble": Mark Twain's Later Articles in the San Francisco Daily Alta California Andrew W. Jewell 96 Reading the 1890s through the Periodical Lens Susan Harris Smith 115 Dominance of the Fittest: The Animal Story in 1890s Cosmopolitan Magazine as Assertion of American Middle-Class Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century Christine Mahady 127 New-Old Tools: A New Approach for Using Nineteenth-Century African American Periodicals for English Teachers Jocelyn Chadwick 143 Canonization Reconstructed: Inclusion and Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century African-American Periodicals with an Ear to the Music of African Americans Genithia Lilla Hogges 152 “The Mob Before Him”: Teaching Antebellum Literature
with Periodicals
Robert Scholnick, 163 Civil Disobedience and the Democratic Review Jennifer Powell 172 A Veritable Scholarly Frontier Kathleen Diffley, 179 Dollars and Cents: A Reading Journal Response about
“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” American Money, and Literary Magazines of
the 1850s Michael Germana 193 Reviews About Our Contributors 224 Recent Scholarship on American Periodicals A Two-Decade
Sampling of Selected Resources for and about Periodical Pedagogy
From the Editors' Chairs “Sambos” and “Black
Cut-throats”: Peter Porcupine on Slavery and Race in the 1790’s
Arthur Scherr Unbinding ‘The Book’: Bryant’s “The Fountain” in the Democratic Review Ingrid Satelmajer Christmas in Our Western Home: The Cultural Work of a Norwegian-american Christmas Annual Kristin A. Risley White-collar Excavations: Fortune Magazine and the Invention of the Industrial Folk James S. Miller The Prophetic Gaze of Orpheus: Charting New Lands in Small Poetry Journals David W. Clippinger Book Reviews Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of the Period. By David CopelandBibliography Selected Scholarship, 1999-2003 Kim Martin Long
From the Editors’ Chairs 1 An “Inconceivable Pleasure” and the Philadelphia Minerva: Erotic Liberalism, Oriental Tales, and The Female Subject in Periodicals of the Early Republic Mark L. Kamarath 3 Hawthorne’s Politics of Storytelling: Two “Tales of Province House” and the Specter of Anglomania in the Democratic Review Souhi Lee 35 Literary Piracy, Nationalism, and Women Readers in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1850-1855 Jennifer Phegley 63 The Devil, Capitalism, and Frank Norris: Defining the “Reading Field” for Sunday Newspaper Fiction, 1870-1910 Charles Johanningsmeier 91 From the Periodical Archives 113 Review Essay: The Digital Archives Cynthia Patterson 143 Reviews To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876, Ed. by Kathleen Diffley, Reviewed by Joseph F. Goeke 151
Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, By Joshua Brown, Reviewed by Scott E. Casper 153
From the Editors’ Chairs 157 Kate Field and the New York Tribune Gary Scharnhorst 159 “This is YOUR Magazine”: Domesticity, Agrarianism, and The Farmer’s Wife Janet Galligani Casey 179 Surrealism and the Fashion Magazine Hannah Crawforth 212 From the Field: Walt Whitman’s Periodical Poetry Susan Belasco 247 Abstracts from Panels Sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals at the American Literature Association Conference, May 2004 260 From the Periodical Archives Reviews Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women’s Poetry, 1800-1900, By Paula Bernat Bennett. Reviewed by Gregor Einselein Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. Edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves. Reviewed by Carl Ostrowski.
Special Issue: Little
Magazines
and
Modernism Little Magazines and Modernism: An Introduction Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible 1
Poetry’s Opening Door: Harriet Monroe and American Modernism John Timberman Newcomb 6 The Lying Game: Others and the Great Spectra Hoax of 1917 Suzanne W. Churchill 23 The Dial, The Little Review, and The Dialogics of Modernism Alam C. Golding 42 “Life is Real and Life is Earnest”: Mike Gold, Claude McKay, and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Adam McKible 56 The Cosmopolitan Midland Tom Lutz 74 The Case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations Caroline Goeser 86 Reviews Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America. By Patricia Okker. Reviewed by Katherine Henry 112 Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing. By Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Reviewed by Ivonne García 114 Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. By Gerard Jones. Reviewed by Jared Gardner 119
From
the Editors’ Chairs 121 Extermination and Democracy: O’Sullivan, the Democratic Review, and Empire, 1837-1840 Robert J. Scholnick 123
The National Archive: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine and the Civic Responsibilities of a Commercial Literary Periodical, 1850-1853 Thomas Lilly 142
Selling College Literacy: The Mass-Market Magazine as Early 20th Century Literacy Sponsor Tom Reynolds 163
When Eustace Tilley Came to Madison Square Garden: Professional Hockey and the Editorial Policy of the New Yorker in the 1920s and 1930s Craig Monk 178
From the Field: The Future of American Periodicals and American Periodicals Research Judith Yaross Lee 196
From the Periodical Archives: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, “The Rejected Manuscript” (1893) 202
Reviews Ladies’ Pages: African American Women’s Magazines and the Culture That Made Them, By Noliwe M. Rooks. Reviewed by Frances Smith Foster 223
The San
Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History, By
Richard Samuel
The Weekly War:
Newsmagazines and Vietnam, By James
Landers. Reviewed
by John Hellman 228
From the Editors’ Chairs 1
Politics and Pedagogy in the American Magazine, 1757-58 Rodney Mader 3
“A Lesson From” the Magazines: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Periodical Poet Matthew Giordano 23
“The Case Was Very Black against” Her: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the Colored American Magazine Sigrid Anderson Cordell 52
The Popular Front in the American Century: Life Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, and Consumer Realism, 1936-1941 Chris Vials 74
From the Periodical Archives: “A Ramble Through the Mechanical Department of the ‘Lady’s Book,” By C.T. Hinckley. Godey’s Lady’s Book (1852).
Reviews Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America, By David Paul Nord. Reviewed by Erin A. Smith 115
Victoria
Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and
the
Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America, By
Amanda Frisken. Reviewed by Faye Dudden 117 Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance, By Anne Elizabeth Carroll. Reviewed by Stephanie Brown 119
The Road to Perdition: E.D.E.N. Southworth and the Critics Linda Naranjo-Heubl 123 “How Changeable Are the Events of War”: National Reconciliation in the Century Magazine’s “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War” Timothy P. Caron 151 Bringing the “New Woan” to the Mission Site: Luise Manning Hodgkins and the Heathen Woman’s Friend Cheryl M. Cassidy 172 The Crisis Cover Girl: Lena Horne, the NAACP, and Representations of African American Femininity, 1941-1945 Megan E. Williams 200 From the Periodical Archives: “The Scribbler” by Charles Brockden Brown 219 Reviews Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture 1850-1877. By Linda Frost. Reviewed by Jeff Berglund 229 Theodore Dreiser’s Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897-1902, Ed. by Yoshinobu Hakutani. Reviewed by Elizabeth Hewitt 233 Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, Edited by Mark L. Kamarath and Sharon M. Harris. Reviewed by Bryan Waterman 235
The Politics of Poetry: The Democratic Review and the Gallows Verse of William Wordsworth and John Greenleaf Whittier Paul Christian Jones 1
Dignified Sensationalism: Cosmopolitan, Elizabeth Bisland, and Trips Around the World Karen Roggenkamp 26 Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Booker T. Washington and the Colored American Magazine Alisha R. Knight 41 Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Very Clever Woman in Vanity Fair Catherine Keyser 62 From the Periodical Archives: Joseph Cook’s “Conversational Opinions of the Leaders of Succession” 97 From the Field: Periodical Studies and Access: A Research Society for America Periodicals Forum 114 Reviews Shaking Out the Bindings:
Periodical Studies in Recent American
Scholarship Ellen
Gruber Garvey 126
Narrating The News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction, By Karen Roggenkamp. Reviewed by Susanna Ashton 130 News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars, By Ronald Weber. Reviewed by Craig Monk 132
Special Issue: Cartoons and
Comics
From the Editors’ Chair: Periodical Comics Jared Gardner William Newman (1817-1870): A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York Jane E. Brown and Richard Samuel West Red Funnies: The New York Daily Worker’s “Popular Front” Comics, 1936-1945 Edward Brunner Ashes in the Gutter: 9/11 and the Serialization of Memory in DC Comics’ Human Target J. Gavin Paul Temporality and Seriality in Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers Hillary Chute From the Periodical Archives: Winsor McCay, George Randolph Chester, and the Tale of the Jungle Imps Jenny E. Robb
The Periodical as Monitorial and Interactive Space in Judith Sargent Murray’s 'The Gleaner' Jennifer Desiderio Prescription for a Periodical: Medicine, Sex, and Obscenity in the Nineteenth Century, As Told in Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly Janice Wood Science, Advocacy, and 'The Sacred and Intimate Things of Life': Representing Motherhood as a Progressive Era Cause in Women’s Magazines Jennifer Burek-Pierce Sports Cartoons in Context: TAD Dorgan and Multi-Genre Cartooning in Early Twentieth- Century Newspapers Amy McCrory From the Field: Historical Periodical Databases Can Shed a New Light on Old Topics Sandra Roff Reviews Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in
America 1850-1900, By Susan
Williams. Reviewed by Dale Bauer Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American
Publishing
Revolution,
By Bruce Michelson. Reviewed by Loren Glass Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Ed. James P. Danky, Wayne A. Wiegand. Reviewed by Sara Crosby The Little Magazine “Others” and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry, The Little Magazine “Others” and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry, By Suzanne W. Churchill. Reviewed by Sean Latham |
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