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Contents Preface ix Introduction: The Literary Museum and the Unsettling of the Early American Novel 1 1. American Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Transatlantic Periodical Culture in the Eighteenth Century 31 2. The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Publishers, Printers, and Editors 69 3. The American Magazine in the Early National Period: Readers, Correspondents, and Contributors 103 4. The Early American Magazine in the Nineteenth Century: Brown, Rowson, and Irving 134 Conclusion: What Happened Next 169 Notes 177 Index 199 ...

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