02416nam a2200313 a 4500 ebr10497681 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110613s2011 nhu sb 001 0 eng d 2011022396 9781584659853 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781611681963 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)763156441 PN4900.A7 G77 2011eb 051 23 Goodman, Susan, 1951- Republic of words [electronic resource] : The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / Susan Goodman. Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2011. xii, 330 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- Beginnings. 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. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Progressive politics under Walter Hines page -- From sea to shining sea -- A state of uncertainty -- Ellery Sedgwick: politics and poets -- A window on the war: Atlantic writers and World War I -- America's War -- The turbulent Twenties, I -- -- The turbulent Twenties, II -- Across the decades. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Atlantic monthly (Boston, Mass. : 1857) Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10497681 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 129424 129424