Harris, Sharon, ed. Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America collects original essays from thirteen scholars and makes a significant contribution to the study of periodicals, print cultures, and the political and literary histories of colonial and Revolutionary America. In three parts—Atlantic Currents; Revolutionary Era Discourses; and The Early Republic and the 1790s—the individual essays explore a range of periodicals and their publics, from German-language publications in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (examined by Wil Verhoeven), to a variety of religious and political journals and newspapers, to the New-York Magazine, the longest running monthly general magazine of the late-eighteenth-century (discussed here by editor Sharon Harris). A number of other essays take up patterns that run across multiple publications: editor Mark Kamrath's investigation of representations of American Indian oratory; Philip Gould's lucid examination of antislavery literature in the last quarter of the century; Frank Shuffelton's interesting account of the excerpting and representation of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; Robert Sturr's description of Shays's Rebellion as it was portrayed in New England magazines; and Beverly [End Page 235] Reed's and Lisa Logan's separate pieces on images of women in Boston and Philadelphia magazines late in the century. [Go here to read the rest of this article.]