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The Western Monthly Magazine, A Continuation Of The Illinois Monthly Magazine (Volume I) From January To June 1833

The Western Monthly Magazine, A Continuation Of The Illinois Monthly Magazine (Volume I) From January To June 1833

Hall, James

Paperback

EtymologyGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354509398
ISBN13: 9789354509391
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 618
Weight: 1.97
Height: 1.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Chicago was a city, the West had a magazine. A frontier voice, heard again. The Western Monthly Magazine (Volume I, January to June 1833) gathers the ambitions and anxieties of the antebellum United States at the edge of settlement. Edited by James Hall, this 19th century literary magazine moves between Mississippi Valley literature and observation: scenes of American frontier life, reflections on politics and taste, and glimpses of pioneer culture and society in 1830s Illinois and the wider transappalachian west periodicals scene. Read it for its immediacy and variety; return to it for the way an early american magazine anthology captures a region learning to describe itself. As a continuation of the Illinois Monthly Magazine, it maps the literary networks of the young Midwest, testing what a western public could be. Ideal for dipping in or reading straight through, it suits casual browsers and classic-literature collectors equally, too today. For readers of Midwest history essays and students of American letters, this historical periodicals collection offers primary sources for historians as well as an American literature study edition with the flavour of the original serial world: timely, argumentative, curious. Its pages illuminate how print helped shape regional identity long before it became national mythology, making it an essential companion to any shelf on the antebellum United States and early American publishing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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