Rezension
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
Zitat
"The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national period, which largely has been viewed not only as a failure but also as less important and less rich than the so-called golden age of nineteenth-century periodicals. Under Gardner's careful attention, however, the early national period emerges as a time of extraordinary periodical experimentation and worthy, in its own right, of a study such as this." Patricia Okker, author of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America "Jared Gardner provides an innovative account of the place of the magazine in U.S. literary history that allows for a reimagining of a large part of the conventional wisdom of the field. His well-written, original book situates magazine culture between and against the newspaper press on one hand and the novel on the other, and he usefully explains both the curious career trajectories of a number of familiar writers and the reasons why intelligent men and women continued to produce magazines without rational expectation of commercial success or viability." John C. Nerone, co-author of The Form of News: A History "This short, handsomely produced book fizzes with ideas, offered as answers to a question glossed over by established literary histories... This is an important book, bringing together ideas and insights from disparate fields of study on both sides of the Atlantic, encompassing comparisons of early English and American periodicals and modern-day online culture; politics and magazine culture; editing and authoring; the distinctive qualities of the book, the magazine, and the newspaper; the transatlantic adaptation of coffee-house culture; the nature of literary success or failure, and the links between reading, writing, and citizenship." - Andrew Hobbs, Jhistory, February 2013
