American literary magazines published between 1850 and 1900 were an
outlet for numerous creative works, book reviews, and other
material. Like Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James, many
of the authors who wrote for these magazines are among the most
famous American authors. This index makes readily available for the
first time thousands of references to major and minor literary
figures and their works. It is also a guide to the many thousands
of facts, opinions, and comments on 19th-century American culture
that are contained in literary magazines of the period.
Alphabetically arranged entries cover roughly a thousand authors,
along with topics such as the novel, poetry, drama and theater,
Darwinism, women, American literature, and copyright law. During
the latter half of the 19th-century, literary magazines flourished
in America. Young writers enjoying their first important
publication stand shoulder to shoulder with established writers in
magazine issues that are so rich with original material that they
often resemble anthologies. Perhaps even more significantly,
editors and reviewers doggedly plied their trade of evaluating and
criticizing promising new volumes, analyzing trends and movements,
and recording the rise and fall of reputations. The Literary Index
is the result of combing 11 prominent American literary magazines
for every reference to all major and hundreds of minor writers and
their works that appeared on the American literary scene in the
second half of the 19th century. Brought to light are tens of
thousands of references to writers, works, and issues that have
never been studied before. This rich source of material drawn from
all sections of the magazines-original works, articles, reviews,
gossip columns, and correspondence, provides unprecedented access
to information on the receptions of major works, the comings and
goings of writers and obscure works. The 700 author entries are
arranged alphabetically and include citations for some 7000 titles.
In addition, there are exhaustive and comprehensive lists of
citations for general subjects such as the novel, poetry, drama and
theater, American literature, Darwinism, and women, as well as a
section on the century-long battle over the passage of an
international copyright law. Every aspect of the literary world of
late 19th-century America is represented, making this volume an
indispensable reference work for scholars.
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