The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 : Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb / Ellery Sedgwick.
The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 : Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb / Ellery Sedgwick.
The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 : Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb / Ellery Sedgwick.
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994.
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T0382608
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Overview, 1857-1909 -- 1. The Founding of the Atlantic (1857): Boston's High Tide -- 2. James Russell Lowell (1857-1861): Yankee Humanist -- 3. James T. Fields (1861-1871): The Publisher as Editor -- 4. William Dean Howells (1871-1881): Editorial Realist -- 5. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (18...
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
Although the Atlantic was rooted in the Yankee humanism of Boston, Cambridge, and Concord, its scope was national. Sedgwick points out that while the magazine spoke for high culture, its tradition was one of intellectual tolerance and of moderate liberalism on social and political issues. It supported abolition, women's rights, and religious tolera...
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The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 : Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb / Ellery Sedgwick.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.
Transferred from N051/25.
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c1994.
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T0382608
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74VKOqKr5jNb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOqKr5jNb
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ISBN
0870239198 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780870239199 (cloth : alk. paper)
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051
MMS ID
991022410169702626
