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010 $a 2006026453
020 $a9781570036712 (pbk : alk. paper)
020 $a1570036713 (pbk : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)71044305
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71044305
035 $a(DLC) 2006026453
035 $a(NNC)6089064
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082 00 $a809.8975$222
100 1 $aMinor, Benjamin B.$q(Benjamin Blake),$d1818-1905.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006062127
245 14 $aThe Southern literary messenger, 1834 1864 /$cBenjamin Blake Minor ; new introduction by Jonathan Daniel Wells.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press : Published in Cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina,$c2007.
300 $axxx, 252 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSouthern classics series
500 $a"Cloth edition published by Neale Publishing Company, 1905."
520 1 $a"The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed a thirty-year run (1834-1864) and was in its time the South's most important literary periodical. Published in Richmond, Virginia, the monthly magazine was edited in its early years by Edgar Allan Poe. In addition to serving as a literary proving ground for Poe, it is also remembered for publishing poems, fiction, and essays by the nation's leading authors - both male and female, northern and southern - including William Gilmore Simms, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Joseph G. Baldwin, John Pendleton Kennedy, Mary E. Lee, and Caroline Lee Hentz." "In 1905 Benjamin Blake Minor (1818-1905), editor of the Southern Literary Messenger during the 1840s, wrote the only book-length study of the magazine. Minor's authoritative account of the journal's history and influence is augmented in this edition with a new introduction by historian Jonathan Daniel Wells that places the magazine and Minor's account in their historical context. Both Wells and Minor reveal significant information found nowhere else about figures and facets of southern literary culture before and during the Civil War." "Minor recounts in detail the relationships he forged with notable authors and includes excerpts from correspondence with Poe and others. Most important, Minor identifies and discusses hundreds of lesser contributors who might otherwise remain anonymous." "He also describes the struggles the magazine's editors endured as they published essays on divisive issues like slavery. Avowedly a southern publication, the Southern Literary Messenger was also the one literary periodical published in the slave states that was widely circulated and respected among a northern readership. Throughout much of its run, the journal avoided sectarian political and religious debates, but as Minor recounts, the sectional crisis of the 1850s gave the contents of the magazine an increasingly partisan flavor. By 1860 the magazine's tone had shifted to a defiantly proslavery and pro-South stance. Through Minor's recollection of this editorial transformation, scholars and students of history, journalism, and literature can discern much about how the hot-button topics of slavery and secession were presented in southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.
630 00 $aSouthern literary messenger.
700 1 $aMinor, Benjamin B.$q(Benjamin Blake),$d1818-1905.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006062127
830 0 $aSouthern classics series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91017289
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026453.html
852 00 $bglx$hPN4900.S7$iM6 2007