Weekly Magazine Research Articles

“Two Men in Ku Klux Klan Disguises”: A Photograph from Reconstruction Alabama

“Two Men in Ku Klux Klan Disguises”: A Photograph from Reconstruction Alabama Frances Osborn Robb (bio) On the evening of october 31, 1868, as supporters of republican presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant left the Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville, Alabama, scores of men on horseback, completely disguised from head to hoof, paraded around the courthouse square. On the building’s lawn, an altercation broke out between W. W. Cox, a white man, and an armed black man named Roper. Someone fired a shot from the lawn; thirty or forty more followed. When the gunfire ended, a black man, Aleck Reed, lay dead, and Silas Thurlow, a white probate judge from Limestone County, was mortally wounded. An “orderly and quiet” meeting had turned into what the December 19, 1868, issue of Harper’s Weekly Magazine called a “riot at Huntsville.”1 The men on horseback were Ku Klux Klan members. Witnesses told Lafayette E. Campbell, the [End Page 222] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Robinson & Murphy. “Two Men in Ku Klux Klan Disguises, Huntsville, Alabama.” Carte de visite photograph. 1869. North Alabama Family Collection. federal investigating officer, that in the Klan’s progress around the square, its members held their firearms fully exposed and never fired a shot.2 Then they held a “watching brief,” observing but not acting, in parade formation on a side street. When the firing ceased, they rode north toward the Huntsville depot. An account notes that General Thomas H. Ruger, the senior officer in charge of the military district [End Page 223] of Alabama, observed the event from his hotel room balcony. From there, he supposedly remarked that there was no state or federal law forbidding “men masquerading . . . upon horse back at night,” and that the men had a right to ride through the town.3 That night, with the presidential election only three days away, the Klan was out in force in hopes of denying Ulysses S. Grant the electoral votes he needed to win the presidency and continue to implement Reconstruction. (The tally would be close: of 149,588 votes cast in Alabama, Grant won a slim majority of 3,746 votes.) Ruger ordered an investigation of the incident, and on November 7, Lafayette E. Campbell of Company H, 33rd U. S. Infantry, submitted his report.4 Campbell, a sixteen-year old college freshman when the Civil War began, left Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, to join the U.S. Army. He would make the army his career. Campbell fought and was wounded in the Missouri Campaign. In 1862, in the Army of the Tennessee, he was captured while on an expedition led by General Ulysses S. Grant. Later, a convalescent Campbell joined the Marine Brigade, a force recruited from Union hospitals to counter Confederate guerrilla activity and ironclad riverboat forays on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; he fought with the brigade in the 1863 Battle at Duck River, Tennessee, and at the Siege of Vicksburg, where he was wounded again.5 Until war’s end, he served in the western U.S. He [End Page 224] Click for larger view View full resolution Table 1. Known Images of “Two Men in Ku Klux Klan Disguises.” This list includes the original 1868 photograph and twelve later images based on it. Titles listed here are italicized when referenced in the text and footnotes. The number in parentheses after a title indicates a specific print of that variant. All university holdings are in special collections unless noted. [End Page 225] rejoined the army in 1866 as second lieutenant in the 15th Infantry, from which he was transferred to the 33rd Infantry. He served in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then in Huntsville, remaining on active duty until his retirement in 1892. Campbell’s report states that after the October 31, 1868, incident, he received orders to proceed to Huntsville with his company, Company H, a unit of the federal force based there. Company H was to patrol the streets and investigate the occurrence. After 2 a.m., returning to town from the railroad depot, Campbell stopped three suspicious-looking armed men carrying clothing and saddles. They...

Excerpts from <em>Sincerity; A Novel in a Series of Original Letters</em>, by Susanna Rowson

Excerpts from Sincerity; A Novel in a Series of Original Letters, by Susanna Rowson Ed White and Duncan Faherty For the fall of 2015, the Just Teach One project, hosted at the American Antiquarian Society's online journal Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life, made available its seventh free, classroom-ready text, Susanna Rowson's Sincerity; A Novel in a Series of Original Letters. Published in book form in 1813 with the title Sarah, or The Exemplary Wife, the novel originally had been serialized anonymously under the byline "The Novelist," in the Boston Weekly Magazine from June 1803 to June 1804. The novel opens with Sarah's abandonment by her father and her unhappy marriage to Darnley, and the plot focuses on the trials of that marriage—Darnley's affairs and imprisonment, Sarah's flight to Ireland, and clashes with male admirers and female detractors. The novel is epistolary and innovatively so, alternating between Sarah's letters to her friend Anne and Anne's more remote letters to a distant friend, Elinor; late in the novel, Anne suddenly dies, changing epistolary circuits still further. One of the most straightforward and lengthy depictions of an unhappy marriage in the early nineteenth century, Sincerity also extends the range of sentimentality associated with Rowson's better-known novel, Charlotte Temple. Our edition, from which we here reproduce three of the original serialization's fifty-three installments, reproduces the text as it originally appeared, including inconsistent spellings (such as Ann and Anne), correcting only obvious misprints. We also note a few of the changes made in the 1813 edition of the full novel, which also included a new preface. The following selections give some sense [End Page 132] of Rowson's changing formulation of sentimentality but also reproduce passages referenced by this forum's contributors. The full text is available online at Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life (jto.common-place.org/rowsons-sincerity-1803–04). SINCERITY; A NOVEL IN A SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS. [from the June 4, 1803 issue] LETTER I—SARAH TO ANNE London, May 19, 1775. yes! Anne, the die is cast—I am a wife. But a less cheerful bride; one who looks forward with less hope, perhaps never existed. You were surprised, you say, to hear to whom I had relinquished my hand and heart—leave out the latter, Anne, it had nothing to do with the transaction. Why were you not here, you say, to have prevented a union which you are morally certain will not conduce to my happiness. You cannot be more certain of it, than I am; but what could I do? Frederic gone to India; hemmed round with persuasive meddlers, who I am more than half convinced, urged me to this measure, fearful I should be burthensome to them; another thing, I was told it was necessary for the preservation of my reputation that I should accept Darnley.1 I had no natural protector; my father so far distant he was the same as dead to me; Frederic gone; my health not sufficiently established to enable me to undertake the journey I meditated before you left England; my finances reduced to a very small portion, and though most earnestly entreated to forbear, Darnley continuing his visits. I found I must accede to his proposals, or be thrown on the world, censured by my relations, robbed of my good name, and being poor, open to the pursuits and insults of the profligate. One thing which encouraged me to hope I might be tolerably happy in the union was—though my heart felt no strong emotions in his favour, it was totally free from all partiality towards any other. He always appeared good humoured and obliging; and though his mind was not highly cultivated, I thought time might improve him in that particular; however, I was candid with him; told him the situation of my heart, and asked if he could be content with receiving attentions which would be only the result of principle. He seemed to think this only maidenish affectation, and perfectly convinced within himself that I loved him already.2 I have read and heard much of the...

Crossing Boundaries and Early Gleanings of Cultural Replacement in Irish Periodical Culture

THE FIRST IRISH LANGUAGE PERIODICAL, Bolg an tSolair, was published in Belfast in  although journalism in a modern context through the medium of Irish did not begin to flourish until the early years of the twentieth century. The ‘Gaelic column’ in English newspapers; Philip Barron’s Waterford-based Ancient Ireland – A Weekly Magazine (); Richard Dalton’s Tipperary journal Fior-Eirionnach (); alongside some occasional periodicals with material relating to the Irish language, ensured that the Irish language featured as an element of a modern journalistic print culture (Nic Phaidin, : -). Central to a reassessment of Irish language newspapers and periodicals in an historical context are two important elements. First, the linguistic and cultural boundaries within which Irish language media evolved and existed, and second, the role and status of the journalist in contemporary society, assessed in the context of traditional, long established Irish writing practices. Study of these practices by Irish language scholars suggests that English newspaper material was used as a source for Irish language manuscript material, crossing written and print boundaries in an emerging print culture through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Buttimer, : –; Ni Urdail, : –). The overlap between the role and function of the learned highly trained file, the scribe, and that of the untrained journalist within the societies in which they functioned, is also significant in the concept of cultural replacement. By the time that the Irish language journalistic forum was used as a vehicle for communication within the Irish language community in the early twentieth century, linguistic boundaries were also unclear. This necessitated a dual-language approach in the public sphere – ensuring the use of Irish in an English language journalistic forum, while also securing the use of English in an Irish language forum. This paper will examine the initial stages of Irish language periodical culture within this historical framework, focusing on the initial identity projections, alongside the survival of this branch of journalism as an instrument in the replacement of a culture which was perceived to have been displaced for two centuries at this point. This cultural replacement transcended traditional cultural boundaries and writing practices. CROSSING BOUNDARIES AND EARLY GLEANINGS OF CULTURAL REPLACEMENT IN IRISH PERIODICAL CULTURE

Ted van Lieshout: Author – Netherlands

Ted van LieshoutAuthor – Netherlands You Chengcheng Click for larger view View full resolution I put as much as possible of myself into my work. If you describe a person, you have to do this in as lifelike a manner as possible. You can only realize that by borrowing from yourself, by looking at yourself T. van Lieshout for the past three decades, Ted van Lieshout has dedicated himself to practicing a great diversity of genres for all age groups and particularly young readers, including picture books, poetry, fiction, radio plays, song lyrics, and scripts for children’s television. Born in Eindhoven in December 1955 into a family of twelve children, van Lieshout set his mind on becoming a writer at an early age. After his graduation in Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1980, he worked for various publishers as an illustrator and book designer. In 1984, he made his debut as a children’s writer with his first poem in De Blauw Geruite Kiel, the famous children’s newspaper of a Dutch Weekly magazine. Since then, he has made tireless efforts in publishing quality works for children and adolescents. A distinctive trait of van Lieshout’s works is that his stories and poems, partly semi-autobiographical, deal with compelling cross-generational themes, such as death and sexuality. Writing about these sensitive topics has enabled him to come to terms with the death of his father and young. At the same time, these themes also connect him to children, who share his quest for belonging and security. In a voice that is both personal and collective, van Lieshout tries to unearth private feelings and create a healing effect with his sense of “melancholy humor” that can resonate with children. Besides these characteristics, van Lieshout tends to approach ordinary subjects in novel ways, experimenting with words and images and sounds and rhythms. With such language effects he aspires to open up children’s literature. Van Lieshout’s influence in children’s literature is considerable; his works have been translated into Danish, English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. A case in point is that the German edition of his novel Gebr (Brothers) won Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) in 1999. Over the course of his career, his unique contribution to children’s literature has brought him a number of awards, including the Charlotte Köhler Stipendium, Gouden Griffel award, and the Theo Thijssen Prize. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Van verdriet kan je grappige hoedjes vouwen [Out of Grief You Can Fold Funny Little Hats]. Den Haag: Leopold, 1986. Print. Google Scholar Stil leven [Still Life]. Nijmegen: SUN, 1998. Print. Google Scholar Zeer kleine liefde [Tiny Love]. Den Haag: Leopold, 1999. Print. Google Scholar Gebr. [Bros.]. Fulham: HarperCollins UK, 1999. Print. Het rijmt. Veel versjes & liedjes 1984-2014 [It Rhymes. Many Poems & Songs 1984-2014]. Amsterdam: Leopold, 2009. Print. [End Page 41] Google Scholar Copyright © 2016 Bookbird, Inc.

Ihara Aya, Desiring Scandalous Women: Gender and Literature in Women's Weekly Magazines

Ihara Aya, <i>Desiring Scandalous Women: Gender and Literature in Women&apos;s Weekly Magazines</i>

Corporate Ties: Arthur Mervyn ’s Serial Economics

Corporate TiesArthur Mervyn’s Serial Economics Kristina Garvin (bio) In July 1798, an editorial note to correspondents appeared in the pages of Philadelphia’s Weekly Magazine of Original Essays, Fugitive Pieces, and Interesting Intelligence. Announcing that the serial publication of Arthur Mervyn had to be suspended, the editor took great pains to explain the delay: “The distance at which some of our Correspondents reside, or their indisposition, necessarily subjects us to the hazard of a pause in publication. This is the only excuse we have to offer for a temporary suspension of Arthur Mervyn” (“To Correspondents”). Weeks later, the Weekly Magazine and Arthur Mervyn suffered an even greater setback: yellow fever took the editor’s life, thereby causing the magazine to be suspended indefinitely. The serialization of Arthur Mervyn was never again resumed in magazine form, though Charles Brockden Brown continued his vision of the novel as a serialized work by issuing the book in two separate volumes in 1799 and 1800. These events illuminate a crucial aspect of serial publication: it was a risky venture for writers and readers alike. In early national magazines, there were no guarantees that serially published stories or novels would ever see completion. When the Weekly Magazine’s editor speaks of the “hazard” of disrupting readers’ expectations, he references the precarious nature of magazine writing, which could be disrupted by financial problems, shifting politics, geographical distances, or even natural disaster. Like Arthur Mervyn, many serialized fictional narratives were delayed or abandoned. Authors and editors were acutely aware that if they failed to generate interest in their work—or if they experienced the kind of setback suffered by the Weekly Magazine—they might not procure enough subscription money to continue publishing. For readers too, serials must have also seemed risky. If reading a novel was like “investing in a speculative venture” (Ingrassia 2), then reading a serialized novel was even more literally speculative, as readers must have wondered not only about the narrative’s [End Page 737] events but also the material terms of its delivery. Serials, more than integrated and completed texts, made transparent a relationship between writers and readers that was both contractual and speculative in ways that were both metaphorical and concrete. They required that writers continually satisfy readers’ desires by delivering textual wares across a period of time, and they demanded that readers make repeated emotional and financial investments by purchasing pieces of stories. This essay explains how Brown used the serial form to offer an economic model that could harness risk, capitalizing on the “hazards” of publication rather than shrinking from their potentially devastating consequences. Though serial publication was risky, its riskiest aspect—the deferral of its conclusion—paradoxically offered Brown a solution: by delaying the answers to the questions that his readers sought, he could secure their long-term investment. Seriality, I argue here, signified for Brown a new type of author-reader relations—one that understood the contract between readers and writers as unfolding over a period of time and without a preordained ending. We might appropriately describe this type of relationship as “corporate.” To understand what I mean by this term, we must recall that the “corporation” is a fairly modern invention—an “artificial being” as Supreme Court justice John Marshall would later write—that functioned as a “person” under the law, enabling individuals to form financial relationships that transcended the limits of the human life span.1 Crucially, the corporation allowed businesses to extend credit and pool risk, insulating individuals from the consequences of market fluctuations. After the Revolution, corporations became a tool for safeguarding economic development, and the unprecedented 317 new corporations that sprang up in the 1780s and 1790s evinced the need to establish financial mastery of the future.2 Corporatism heralded the advent of a marketplace that would be managed not by embodied individuals but by impersonal conglomerates. Arthur Mervyn intervenes in this emerging reality, offering a model of capital relations that displaces immediate fulfillment in favor of continued deferral. As a self-consciously serialized novel that calls attention to itself as open-ended, it is also a metaserial: Mervyn himself acts as a serialist, trading stories for a kind of metaphoric...

Lexical and Grammatical Metaphors in Newsweek

This study investigates lexical and grammatical metaphors in Newsweek Weekly Magazines. The objectives of the study are to identify what lexical and grammatical metaphors used in Newsweek, to describe the way those metaphors are used, and to explain why the Newsweek use those lexical and grammatical metaphors. A qualitative descriptive research was applied. The data were taken from eight texts published on November and December in 2010. The data were collected by selecting the texts contained the issue of Barack Obama, The President of United States of America because of his visit to Indonesia on November. As the result, the use of lexical and grammatical metaphors has been found in Newsweek. The metaphors in Newsweek realized into four types of lexical metaphors and eight groups data of grammatical metaphor. The Newsweek used more grammatical metaphor than Lexical metaphor in order to make information contained in Newsweek it more coherent and compact, and to help readers more easily understand the information. Keywords: metaphors; lexical; grammatical; mass media

'I Love My Pharmacist' winner announced

Tuesday 2 December 2014: Pharmacist Reena Barai has been announced as the winner of the ‘I Love My Pharmacist’ competition organised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in collaboration with IPC Media and Woman’s Weekly magazine. Commenting on her achievement, Barai said: “Ironically, I grew up aspiring to be the ‘best pharmacist’ because I wanted […]

Infant food marketing strategies undermine effective regulation of breast‐milk substitutes: trends in print advertising in Australia, 1950–2010

This study addresses the issue of whether voluntary industry regulation has altered companies' marketing of breast-milk substitutes in Australia since the adoption of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code on the Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes 1981. Print advertisements marketing breast-milk substitutes were systematically sampled from the Australian Women's Weekly (AWW) magazine and the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) for the 61 years from 1950 to 2010. Breast-milk substitute advertising in both the MJA and the AWW peaked and began declining before the introduction of the WHO Code in 1981. Although there was almost no infant formula advertising in AWW after 1975-79, other breast-milk substitute advertising has been increasing since 1992, in particular for baby food, toddler formula and food and brand promotion. Companies have adopted strategies to minimise the effects of the Code on sales and profit in Australia, including increasing toddler formula and food advertisements, increasing brand promotion to the public, and complying with more limited voluntary regulatory arrangements. Comprehensive regulation is urgently required to address changed marketing practices if it is to protect breastfeeding in Australia.

Thomas Nast: the father of modern political cartoons

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Weekly magazine. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran focuses not just on Nast's political cartoons for Harper's but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics and highlights the many contradictions in his own life: he was an immigrant who attacked immigrant communities, a supporter of civil rights who portrayed black men as foolish children in need of guidance, and an enemy of corruption and hypocrisy who idolized Ulysses S. Grant. He was a man with powerful friends, including Mark Twain, and powerful enemies, including William M. Boss Tweed. Halloran interprets Nast's work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates Nast's lasting legacy on American political culture.

PEN Hemingway Keynote Address Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 1 April 2012: Ernest Hemingway: Why His Work Matters Now More than Ever, A Love Letter from the Digital World

Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year's best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of Andre Dubus III, who spoke at the ceremony honoring 2012 PEN Hemingway award winner Teju Cole and his novel Open City (Random House, 2011). Dubus is best known as author of the novel House of Sand and Fog , a #1 New York Times bestseller, finalist for the National Book Award, and source for the Academy Award-nominated film. His recent memoir, Townie , was named on many Top Nonfiction lists for 2011, including those of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews , and Esquire magazine.

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&nbsp; This research aims to verify the mediating effect of organizational socialization on the relationship between leader-member relationship and job stress (physical and psychological health), targeting employees of the top 500 businesses in Taiwan ranked by Business Weekly Magazine in 2010. This research adopted the questionnaire survey method and a total of 303 valid questionnaires were returned. From the analysis, we found the following results: (1) organizational socialization has a mediating effect on the correlation between leader-member relationship and physical health, and (2) organizational socialization has a mediating effect on the correlation between leader-member relationship and psychological health. In conclusion, this research discussed the theoretical and practical connotations of the research results and proposed recommendations for follow-up studies. &nbsp; Key words:&nbsp;Leader-member relationship, organizational socialization, job stress.

China's Environmental Civilian Activism

In the Policy Forum “China's Road to Sustainability” (2 April, p. [50][1]), J. Liu Overlooks an important cultural force. China's worsening environmental conditions have catalyzed a spirit of environmental civilian activism. For example, in 2003, a consortium proposed erecting 13 dams on the Nujiang River. China's environmental nongovernmental organizations and scholars launched a protest campaign through the Internet and newspapers. The critics argued that as reservoirs behind the dams filled up, flooding and landslides would imperil habitats. In response, Premier Wen Jiabao suspended the dam project pending an environmental review in 2004 ([ 1 ][2]). The landmark of environmental civilian activism occurred in Xiamen City in 2007. The local government supported construction of a $1.4-billion paraxylene plant near the center of the city. Information about the environmental impact of this project was not made available to the local residents. The people of Xiamen City were outraged when—through cell phone messages and the Internet—they learned of the plant's environmental risks. A phone text message was circulated among Xiamen citizens in late May calling for a “collective walk” (demonstration). On 1 June 2007, more than 1000 citizens gathered in front of the municipal building to protest. The demonstration forced the local government to cancel the largest industrial project in the history of Xiamen ([ 2 ][3]). ![Figure][4] Protests. Chinese citizens protest against the planned Guangzhou trash incinerator in 2009. Their banners read, “Oppose the trash incinerator.” CREDIT: AP PHOTO The burgeoning middle class has become the driver of environmental civilian activism. For example, operation of the Likeng trash incinerator in Guangzhou City started in 2005 without any protest, although local farmers worried about health risk ([ 3 ][5]). In contrast, the proposed Panyu trash incinerator in Guangzhou City in 2009 triggered protests that were led by the middle class ([ 4 ][6]), who used science-based evidence to openly challenge prevailing notions formulated by the authorities. (In earlier years, standard practice was to obey Beijing-based experts in environmental protection.) In addition, the self-organized middle class forced the local government to open discussion by Internet. By seizing the opportunity for an open discussion, the newly empowered locals took to the streets to protect their environmental rights ([ 4 ][6]). Recent years have witnessed an impressive growth in environmental protests in China. The number of petitions and mass public protests related to environmental issues has increased by 30% per year in the past few years, although the number of petitions lodged with the Chinese government has dropped ([ 5 ][7]). The current environmental civilian activism movements have several common characteristics: (i) They are confined to one specific geographical space. (ii) Their goal is protecting the environment, rather than political rights or commercial interests. (iii) They focus on a specific pollutant, rather than general environmental degradation. The local nature of the movement enables the organization of a large number of citizens with little effort in a very short time. Given more open social and political conditions and the increasing size of the middle class in China, environmental civilian activism will certainly be a key driver in China's transition to sustainability. 1. [↵][8]1. R. Stone , Science 319, 1604 (2008). [OpenUrl][9][Abstract/FREE Full Text][10] 2. [↵][11]1. F. Zeng, 2. Z. Jiang , “Annual figures: Xiamen citizen in PX protest,” Southern People Weekly Magazine (18 January 2008); [www.infzm.com/content/4640][12] (in Chinese). 3. [↵][13]1. J. Chen , “Some farmers near Likeng trash incinerator died of cancer,” China News Weekly (4 December 2009); reproduced at (in Chinese). 4. [↵][14]1. M. Moore , “China's middle-class rise up in environmental protest,” Telegraph (23 November 2009); [www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6636631/Chinas-middleclass-rise-up-in-environmental-protest.html][15]. 5. [↵][16]1. S. Zhou , “Creating environmental supervision and environmental law enforcement to cope with new task and new challenges” (Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, 2008); [www.mep.gov.cn/info/ldjh/200804/t20080425_121679.htm][17] (in Chinese). 6. The views expressed in this paper are the author's own and not necessarily those of QIBEBT-CAS, GIG-CAS. I thank B. Jong for comments and linguistic support. 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Determining How Readers Responded to Cather's Fiction: The Cultural Work of The Professor's House in Collier's Weekly

When copies of the Collier's Weekly maga zine issue dated June 6, 1925 arrived in mailboxes and on news stands across the United States, purchasers were confronted with a cover image that was both puzzling and unusually dark and mysteri ous for the magazine: a gaunt, dark-skinned man sporting a goatee and mustache, wearing a weird type of red headgear, with two rather suspi cious men and two women peering out from behind him (Figure 1). only thing prospective readers knew for certain was that the image was in some way connected to a fiction announced by large black type at the bottom of the cover: The Professor's House A NEW NOVEL by WILLA CATHER. What did Collier's readers make of this cover? More

Pathos and Fun: Conrad and Harper's Magazine

Pathos and FunConrad and Harper's Magazine Richard Ruppel (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 5. Harper's Magazine, November 1911. Cover. [End Page 178] Though Joseph Conrad probably took the most pleasure from Blackwood's acceptance of Heart of Darkness for Maga early in his writing career, his relationship with Harper's publishing and with Harper's Monthly Magazine was at least as important to his eventual popular acceptance, both in England and in the United States, and to his financial success (see figure 5). Harper's was Conrad's American book publisher for Nostromo (1904), The Mirror of the Sea (1905), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), and A Personal Record (1912); "An Anarchist" (August 1906), "The Informer" (December 1906), "The Partner (November 1911), and "The Secret-Sharer" (August–September 1910) were all first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine (both in England and the United States) (Reid 57–58). "The Tallness of the Spars" (10 June 1905) and "The Weight of the Burden" (17 June 1905) first appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine before being collected in The Mirror of the Sea (1906, where "The Tallness of the Spars" became "Cobwebs and Gossamer"). America's Preeminent Literary Magazine By the time its legendary, long-serving (1869–1919) editor, Henry Mills Alden, accepted "An Anarchist" in 1906, Harper's was the preeminent literary magazine in the United States. Harper's New Monthly Magazine began in 1850 as a "'compendium' for those of their customers who didn't have time to read through 'scores and hundreds of magazines and journals'" (Lapham xii). Copyright laws did not protect European authors and publishers in the American market, so Harper's early issues [End Page 179] were full of pirated pieces by Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, and others—American authors were relegated to the back. Though the magazine achieved extraordinary popularity very soon—with fifty thousand subscribers after six months of publication (Exman 69–70)—its European orientation inspired a backlash: The American (Whig) Review (1845–1852) claimed that the Harpers were "anti-American in feeling as concern[ed] American literary development," and George R. Graham, of Graham's Magazine called Harper's Monthly a good foreign magazine and prophesized "the veriest worshipper of the dust of Europe will tire of the dead level of John Bull upon every page." (Haveman 16) Nearly bankrupt in 1896, it was restored to solvency through huge loans from J. P. Morgan, who wrote, "[t]he downfall of the House of Harper would be a national calamity"; Morgan never asked to be repaid (Lapham xx). Partly in response to the criticism the magazine suffered for being slavishly European, but mostly because of the increasing acceptance of American authors and the more general rise in American cultural self-confidence (fueled by its growing industrial power), Harper's priorities had reversed by 1900. American works were given preferential treatment, and European authors like Conrad appeared near the back. The magazine worked hard not to offend middle-class, late-Victorian tastes. "Harper's was notorious for its censorship of fictional writing, most notably an early version of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure in 1894, and it was the house policy of Harper and Brothers to print only material that could be read aloud before all members of the family" (Dawson). Harper's Monthly Magazine ("New" was dropped from the title in 1900) therefore tended to be a genteel, cautious outlet for middle-class taste and morality. William Dean Howells wrote the "Editor's Study" from January 1892 to March 1896 (Campbell). Before taking the position, he learned in an interview with one of the Harpers that there were things "a man might or might not say in the Harper periodicals […] at any approach to which it 'rang a little bell.' […] I tried to catch the tinkle of the little bell when it was not actually sounded" (Brake 111). Conrad's attitude toward Harper and Brothers began with enthusiastic gratitude for their generous terms. In November 1902 he told Pinker he would be happy to "occasionally furnish a story for Harper" because "they pay well; and I want to be well paid" (CL...

The ‘People’s City’

AbstractThe mid‐20th‐century communist ideal was for cities that were ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Wang Jun, an editor at Outlook Weekly magazine and author of a best‐selling book on the planning of Beijing, describes how the ambition to accommodate public life in urban space is a relatively modern phenomenon that goes against the grain of a long tradition of landownership in China. Given this background, can the original notion of the ‘People's City’ ultimately survive the current wave of property privatisation? Copyright © 2008 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

“Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings”: The Murderous Case of James Yates

Abstract:In 1781, James Yates, a farmer in upstate New York, brutally murdered his family while suffering from a “religious delusion.” Fifteen years later, in 1796, The New York Weekly Magazine published an anonymously authored account of this episode, which in turn inspired Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland. Previously unexamined newspaper reports of the original massacre uniformly link Yates's violence to his religious identity as a Shaker. Shakerism's emphasis on gender equality and rejection of patriarchal familial structures prefigured, in many ways, the republican ideological investment in women (particularly mothers) as repositories of virtue; thus, Yates's crime can be understood as an early manifestation of a broader “crisis of masculinity” in the period. The 1796 account makes no mention of Yates's Shakerism, but nevertheless participates in discourses of gender and nationhood; it memorializes the female victims, containing Yates's “treasonous” violence against the family within an orderly narrative that privileges female heroism.

Goldsmith's Contributions to the Weekly Magazine

Fifteen items in the Weekly Magazine have been attributed to Goldsmith. Our study uses traditional kinds of internal evidence (mainly verbal parallels) together with evidence from selected linguistic features. A preliminary analysis identifies features which best distinguish Goldsmith samples from those of a number of contemporary authors. Using this selection of features, we calculate the distances of the fifteen Weekly items from the cluster of Goldsmith samples; an item at too large a distance is unlikely to be his. A parallel investigation is based on sentence-length statistics. We conclude that seven essays may plausibly be assigned to Goldsmith, that he probably co-authored two pieces, and that in three cases he merely made minor additions to material from other sources.

The Question of the Slit‐Mouthed Woman: Contemporary Legend, the Beauty Industry, and Women’s Weekly Magazines in Japan

The Question of the Slit‐Mouthed Woman: Contemporary Legend, the Beauty Industry, and Women’s Weekly Magazines in Japan

A Study on Consumption of Sexual Symbols by Content-analysis of Weekly Magazine Articles

A Study on Consumption of Sexual Symbols by Content-analysis of Weekly Magazine Articles