Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0

Word count: 319K words
Chapters: 32

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by VariousAuthor: Various,Language: English, Class: AP: General Works: Periodicals, Release Date: Feb 10, 2018

Editor's review

This is a facsimile electronic edition of the February 1847 issue of Graham's Magazine, a valuable slice of the nineteenth-century American general periodical. Its contents typically spanned literature, art, current commentary and illustrations, offering direct access to the reading tastes and public topics of the mid-Victorian era. For readers studying the history of American periodicals, print culture, or nineteenth-century English prose, it provides primary material unmediated by second-hand summary; general readers may also treat it as a short anthology, browsing its fiction, poetry and reviews to sense the rhythm of early magazine editing. As a complete issue in facsimile or transcription, it is best read as a historical document rather than a modern selected edition, with attention to the information about its era conveyed by column arrangement, advertisements and editorial notes. Its free public-domain status through Project Gutenberg also makes it suitable for classroom materials or digital humanities projects.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Scholars and students studying nineteenth-century American periodicals and print culture
Readers interested in Victorian English prose, fiction and poetry
Teachers needing public-domain English primary sources for classroom materials or digital humanities projects
General readers who enjoy browsing old magazines and soaking up the atmosphere of historical reading

Not a good fit for

Beginners expecting modern typography, annotations or an introduction
Those who want only works by a single well-known author and prefer not to browse a whole issue
Casual readers with limited stamina for English reading who need a short selected anthology

Reading tips

Begin with the table of contents and column arrangement, then choose literary or commentary pieces of interest for close reading.
Treat the magazine as a slice of its era and note the social information in advertisements, illustrations and editorial notes.
For research, read alongside reference works on nineteenth-century American periodical history.
In the original English, read piece by piece, taking only one or two at a time to reduce the pressure of a whole issue.

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The record shows the electronic edition is in English, containing the English text of the original 1847 issue, with no Chinese translation or bilingual text.

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Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.