The Atlantic monthly, 1857-1909 : Yankee humanism at high tide and ebb
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
Print Book, English, [2009], ©1994
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, [2009], ©1994
xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781558497931, 1558497935
368048027
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 (1881-1890): Editorial Aesthete
6. Horace Elisha Scudder (1890-1898): Missionary of Yankee Culture
7. Walter Hines Page (1898-1899): Progressive Editing
8. Bliss Perry (1899-1909): Liberal Humanist in the Progressive Era