A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850

A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850
Author: Frank Luther Mott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1938
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674395503

"The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.

Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822

Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822
Author: John Ballard Blake
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1959
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674722507

Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town of Boston. A significant part of this study is the insight it offers into early attitudes toward disease and death as well as other basic political, social, and economic questions.

Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850

Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850
Author: Annika Bautz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351851195

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and religion. In addition, the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres, including, for example, the essay, the guidebook, the travel narrative, the periodical, the novel, and the poem, can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions, transformations, and border crossings. The volume is underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange, as opposed to transfer and continuance, in its analysis of authors, texts, and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of people, texts, and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets and politics, taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and popular writers of the period, including Austen, Poe, Crèvecoeur, Brockden Brown, Sedgwick, Hemans, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, and Melville. In different ways, the essays gathered together here are concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the transitive, circulatory, and contingent experiences of transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest in the long nineteenth century.