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Republic of words

Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Republic of words the Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / [electronic resource] : Susan Goodman. - Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 330 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Beginnings. Forging traditions: James Russell Lowell -- John Brown's war -- The Battle of the Hundred Pines -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Dueling visions: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray -- Reconstructions: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Progressive politics under Walter Hines page -- From sea to shining sea -- A state of uncertainty -- Ellery Sedgwick: politics and poets -- A window on the war: Atlantic writers and World War I -- America's War -- The turbulent Twenties, I -- -- The turbulent Twenties, II -- Across the decades.

9781611681963 1611681960




Atlantic monthly (Boston, Mass. : 1857)


Electronic books.

PN4900.A7 / G77 2011

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