Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Dime Novel Debate, Again
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George Cary Eggleston After my last post on the debates about the place of the Dime Novel in American culture in the 1880s , Demian Katz...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"Poor little Nellie Grant" and the Wedding of the Century
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Nellie Grant, Algernon Sartoris ( via ) Last year I took part in some filming for an episode of Heir Hunters , the BBC's genealog...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras
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(Mardi Gras in 1858, London Illustrated News , May 8 1858, via ) On March 8 1859, a 23 year old trainee steamboat pilot named Samuel Cle...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
"Pestilent stuff": The New York Tribune's Dime Novel War of 1884
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In March 1884, the New York Tribune took aim at what it considered to be one of the evils of the age: the dime novel. Frederick Whitta...
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Monday, January 14, 2013
"Shut in from all the world without": John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyll (1866)
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(Frontispiece to the first edition, available here ) There's a dusting of snow on the ground, which is excuse enough to return to th...
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