Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925

Table of Contents

contents ix Preface part i 3 1. Beginnings 8 2. Forging Traditions James Russell Lowell 16 3. John Brown’s War 25 4. The Battle of the Hundred Pines Thomas Wentworth Higginson 32 5. Dueling Visions Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray 42 6. Reconstructions Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr. 51 7. James and Annie Fields The Business of Hospitality 59 8. Harriet Beecher Stowe Tests the Magazine 69 9. Battle of the Books part ii 79 10. Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a Changing Magazine 87 11. William Dean Howells Democracy at Work 100 12. John Greenleaf Whittier’s Seventieth Birthday 107 13. Bret Harte to the Lions 117 14. Straddling the Atlantic Henry James 125 15. Clarence King, Scholar-Adventurer 133 16. The Gilded Eighties 142 17. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Guardian at the Gate 151 18. In the Wake of Louis Agassiz 160 19. A Magazine in Decline and Ascension part iii 171 20. From the Far East to Mars Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell 183 21. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois 193 22. Progressive Politics under Walter Hines Page 206 23. From Sea to Shining Sea 216 24. A State of Uncertainty 224 25. Ellery Sedgwick Politics and Poets 233 26. A Window on the War Atlantic Writers and World War I 242 27. America’s War 250 28. The Turbulent Twenties, I 260 29. The Turbulent Twenties, II 272 30. Across the Decades 277 Acknowledgments 279 Notes 323 Index ...