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

Other author Kamrath, Mark.
Other author Harris, Sharon M.
Format Book
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxxvii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. --History and criticism.
American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783. --History and criticism.
Periodicals--Publishing. --United States. --History. --18th century.
Literature publishing--United States. --History. --18th century.
Books and reading--United States. --History. --18th century.
American literature--1783-1850. --History and criticism.
United States--Intellectual life. --18th century.

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 -- 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 "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 --
Contents "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004014807
ISBN1572333197 (alk. paper)

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