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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: colonial newspapers and magazines, 1704-1775 (search)
England magazines. See his Lists of New England magazines, in Publications of the colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. XIII, pp. 69-74. Newspapers are easily enough distinguished in general by the attempt to give items of current news. Outside the regular news sheets, there is a strange assortment of colonial productions usually classed as magazines, but in many cases hardly recognizable as such. For instance, William Livingston's Independent Reflector, or weekly essays and also Andrew Oliver's Censor, are nothing more than single essays published serially. The Censor was published in weekly reply to Mucius Scaevola and other writers of the Spy. The very meaning of the word magazine in the eighteenth century makes classification difficult. It was literally a storehouse, being applied to literature as a collection ; almost any assemblage of writings, especially if published serially, could be referred to as a magazine. Even the regular London magazines of the period were ma
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the early drama, 1756-1860 (search)
t first glance, for it was made a vehicle for the expression of democratic ideals, and this strengthened its hold on the American people. The most significant of this group of Philadelphia dramatists was George Henry Boker. His first play, Calaynos, is a tragedy based on the hatred of the Spaniards for the Moors. Previous to its performance in Philadelphia in 1851, it had a long run at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London in 1849, where Samuel Phelps played Calaynos and G. K. Dickenson, Oliver. Calaynos, Lond. ed., n.d., p. 8. His second tragedy, Leonor de Guzman, produced in 1853, was also laid in Spain and is concerned with the revenge of the injured Queen, Maria of Portugal. His comedy The betrothal, The facts given here and in the Bibliography are based upon the manuscripts of Boker, in the possession of his family. produced successfully in Philadelphia and New York in 1850, and played in England in 1853, is laid in Italy. With the exception of Under a Mask, a prose
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, etc., 147 Observations on the New Constitution, 148 Octavia Brigaldi, 224 Odds and ends, 239 Ode on the late General Wolfe, 123 Ode on the prospect of peace, 177 Ode to friendship, 176 Odell, Rev., Jonathan, 173, 174 Of ancient and modern Confederacies, 146 Of the Meanes of disposing the enemies to peace, 97 Old bachelor, the, 237 Oldmixon, John, 26 Old Oaken Bucket, the, 279 Old South Church, 20 Oliver, Andrew, 121 Oliver Oldschool, 234 Ollapodiana, 241 Omoo, 321 On conciliation with America, 212 On the Conqueror of America shut up in Boston, 139 On the death of Captain Nicholas Biddie, 183 On the five points of Calvinism, 66 On the human understanding, 57 On the nature, extent and perfection of the divine Goodness, 79 On the prospect of planting Arts and learning in America, 214 On the rise and progress of the differences between great Britain and her American coloni