A History of the Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1909: Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb

by Ellery Sedgwick

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497935
• ISBN13: 9781558497931
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"