| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.
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Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Kamrath, Mark.
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Harris, Sharon M.
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| Added Title |
Periodical literature in 18th-century America |
| ISBN |
1572333197 (acid-free paper) |
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