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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Forging traditions: James Russell Lowell -- John Brown's war -- The Battle of the Hundred Pines -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Dueling visions: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray -- Reconstructions: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. …”
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