Periodical literature in eighteenth-century America edited by Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamrath, Mark.

Harris, Sharon M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.

Periodicals--Publishing--United States--History--18th century.

Periodicals.

Literature publishing--United States--History--18th century.

Literature publishing.

Books and reading--United States--History--18th century.

Books and reading.

American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.

United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Periodical literature in 18th-century America

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2005.

Contents:

Pox and "hell-fire" : Boston's smallpox controversy, the new science, and early modern liberalism / Carla Mulford

Imagining a transatlantic awakening : the Christian history and the hermeneutics of revival / Tim D. Hall

"Incorporated

into a body politic" : clubs, print, and the gendering of the civic subject in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / John Smolenski

"A colony of aliens" : Germans and the German-language press in colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania / W.M. Verhoeven

"Widely read by American patriots" : the New-York weekly journal and the influence of Cato's Letters on colonial America / Chad Reid

American Indian oration and discourses of the republic in eighteenth-century American periodicals / Mark L. Kamrath

Civil unrest and the rhetoric of the American Revolution : depiction of Shays's Rebellion in New England magazines of the 1780s / Robert D. Sturr

The African slave trade and abolitionism : rereading antislavery literature, 1776-1800 / Philip Gould

Exhibiting the fair sex : the Massachusetts magazine and the bodily order of the American woman / Beverly J. Reed

Binding ties : Thomas Jefferson, Francis Hopkinson, and the representation of the Notes on the state of Virginia / Frank Shuffelton

"The ladies in particular" : constructions of femininity in the Gentlemen and ladies town and country magazine and the Lady's magazine ; and repository of entertaining knowledge / Lisa M. Logan

Reading the foreign news, imagining an American public sphere : radical and conservative visions of "the public" in mid-1790s newspapers / Seth Cotlar

The New-York magazine : cultural repository / Sharon M. Harris

Appendix, American periodical series, 1741-1800./ Frank Shuffelton

"The ladies in particular" : constructions of femininity in the Gentlemen and ladies town and country magazine and the Lady's magazine ; and repository of entertaining knowledge / Lisa M. Logan

Appendix, American periodical series, 1741-1800.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line -- Graphics: "Ein Geistliches Magazien" (Am 1764 Gei).

ISBN:

1572333197 (acid-free paper)

9781572333192 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

55801028