Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

Contents: Introduction: Periodical literature in social and historical context / Susan Belasco Smith and Kenneth M. Price From Dial essay to New York book: the making of Woman in the nineteenth century / Larry J. Reynolds From periodical writer to poet: Whitman's journey through popular culture / David S. Reynolds Uncommon discourse: Fanny Fern and the New York Ledger / Joyce W. Warren Serialization and the nature of Uncle Tom's cabin / Susan Belasco Smith Lydia Maria Child and the Juvenile miscellany : the creation of an American children's literature / Carolyn L. Karcher Magazine practices and Melville's Israel Potter / Sheila Post-Lauria Addressing or redressing the magazine audience: Edmund Quincy's Wensley / Ezra Greenspan Serial politics in William Gilmore Simms's Woodcraft / Patricia Okker "Don't tell! They'd advertise": Emily Dickinson in the Round table / Robert J. Scholnick Home from the theatre of war: the Southern magazine and recollections of the Civil War / Kathleen Diffley Not just filler and not just sentimental: women's poetry in American Victorian periodicals, 1860-1900 / Paula Bennett Ambrose Bierce and the transformation of the Gothic tale in the nineteenth-century American periodical / Gary Hoppenstand The North-South reconciliation theme and the "shadow of the Negro" in Century illustrated magazine / Janet Gabler-Hover Charles Chesnutt, the Atlantic monthly, and the intersection of African-American fiction and elite culture / Kenneth M. Price.