Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share their different perspectives. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture reexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader. | Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Introduction: The Literary Museum and the Unsettling of the Early American Novel 1. American Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Transatlantic Periodical Culture in the Eighteenth C 2. The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Publishers, Printers and Editors 3. The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Readers, Correspondents, and Contributors 4. The Early American Magazine in the Nineteenth Century: Brown, Rowson, and Irving Conclusion: What Happened Next Notes Index Back Cover | A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
EBSCO host-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013
Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013 — Choice
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
EBSCOhost-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013
Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013 — EBSCO host-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
EBSCOhost-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013
Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013 — Society for US Intellectual History
| Jared Gardner is an associate professor of English and film studies at Ohio State University and the author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845.