Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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370K words
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Literature English Originals Illustrated GuideMagazine SelectionBeautiful EssaysPopular Narrative19th CenturyEclectic ReadingCultural ChangeSocial Observation

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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. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by VariousAuthor: Various,Language: English, Class: AP: General Works: Periodicals, Release Date: Jan 20, 2017

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This is an electronic reprint of the November 1850 issue of Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, a representative sample of a mid-nineteenth-century American general-interest periodical. Its contents typically span literature, criticism, current affairs, and illustrated reporting, giving it primary-source value for understanding Anglo-American cultural taste, periodical publishing, and popular reading culture of the period. As a free Project Gutenberg eBook, it is easy to search and cite, making it a useful supplementary resource for research on nineteenth-century periodical history, literary history, or Anglo-American social and cultural history. There is no need to read it page by page; begin with the table of contents, then select literary columns or critical essays for close reading to sense the style and concerns of the mid-Victorian era. For general readers it is more a historical archive than a continuous read in the modern sense, and its views and expressions should be understood with an awareness of their historical context.

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  1. Start with the eBook's table of contents and section divisions, then choose two or three pieces for close reading rather than reading the whole issue.
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Is this magazine suitable as a primary source for historical research? It is suitable as a sample of a mid-nineteenth-century American general-interest periodical, useful for studying section design, literary taste, critical discourse, and publishing forms. But it is only a single issue and cannot represent the whole run; it should be judged together with other issues and secondary research.

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