Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture written by Jared Gardner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: the literary museum and the unsettling of the early American novel -- American spectators, tatlers, and guardians: transatlantic periodical culture in the eighteenth century -- The American magazine in the early national period: publishers, printers, and editors -- The American magazine in the early national period: readers, correspondents, and contributors -- The early American magazine in the nineteenth century: Brown, Rowson, and Irving -- Conclusion: what happened next.