An edition of The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 (1994)

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Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb

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An edition of The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 (1994)

The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909

Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb

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From its founding in 1857 until its sale by Houghton Mifflin in 1908, the Atlantic Monthly was the most respected literary periodical in the United States. This study focuses on the magazine's first seven editors: James Russell Lowell, James T. Fields, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horace Scudder, Walter Hines Page, and Bliss Perry.

Ellery Sedgwick examines their personalities, editorial policies, and literary tastes, and shows how each balanced his role as advocate of "high" culture with the demands of the literary marketplace and American democracy.

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 tolerance, and published incisive criticism of unregulated industrial capitalism.

The Atlantic also played an important role in the rise of American literary realism, and published early work not only by such authors as James, Jewett, and Howells, but also by Chesnutt, Du Bois, Cahan, and Zitkala-Sa.

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338

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The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909: Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb
1994, University of Massachusetts Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
051
Library of Congress
PN4900.A7 S43 1994, PN4900.A7S43 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 338 p. :
Number of pages
338

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Open Library
OL1424100M
Internet Archive
atlanticmonthly10000sedg
ISBN 10
0870239198
LCCN
93034629
OCLC/WorldCat
28928679
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51207

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