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The Campaign of Periodicals After the War of 1812 for National American Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John C. McCloskey
John C. McCloskey*
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University of Oregon
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Extract

American triumphs on the sea in the War of 1812 tempered the American mind into a belief in its power to express itself in a literature independent of any foreign influence. Previously America had shown only a faltering confidence in herself as a literary nation. No great protestations of literary strength had appeared in the periodicals. But with America's victory in this second war with the mother country, a new-found note of confidence came into literature. This new confidence was not, however, a nation-wide experience. It was a political phenomenon, Democratic rather than Federal.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1935 , pp. 262 - 273
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1935

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References

1 North American Review, i (1815), 312–313.—The same tone was evident as late as 1829. The American Quarterly Review, vi (1829), 240–262, stated that “Dependent we are, and must continue to be for some time. …”—See also the Portico's attack on Robert Walsh in iii (Jan., 1817), 352.

2 Mathew Carey, Olive Branch (Middlebury, Vermont, January, 1816), p. 242.—See also the following references: American Review of History and Politics, iv (Oct., 1812), 243.—Annals of Congress, 12 Cong., 1 Sess., xxiii, 242 (May 18, 1812), 300 (June 22, 1812); xxiv, 306 (June 26, 1812), 309 (June 30, 1812), 314 (July 3, 1812), 1478 (June 1, 1812), 1570 (July 1, 1812).—S. F. Bemis, The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy (New York, 1927), iii, viii–ix; K. C. Babcock, The Rise of American Nationality (New York, 1906), vi, 150–157; Henry Adams, History of the United States (New York, 1909), vi, 171–174; S. E. Morison, Maritime History of Massachusetts (Boston, 1921), p. 198.

3 Edward Channing, History of the United States (New York, 1917), iv, 558–559.—See also Homer C. Hockett, Political and Social History of the United Stales (New York, 1925), p. 314; Morison, op. cit., pp. 198–199.

4 Analectic Magazine, ii, 494.

5 Portico (August, 1816), pp. 144–147.—See also Niles' Register, (Dec., 1815), p. 43, (Aug., 1813), pp. 76–78, (Sept., 1812), p. 31, (Nov. 7, 1812), p. 159, (Feb. 20, 1813), p. 397, (Dec. 26, 1812), p. 27, (Jan. 9, 1813), p. 302; Analectic Magazine (Nov., 1813), p. 390, (Jan., 1814), p. 57, (Sept., 1814), p. 232, (Nov., 1813), p. 402, (Jan., 1817), p. 38, (Nov., 1815), p. 414; Port-Folio (May, 1816), p. 446.

6 Hockett, op. cit., p. 325.

7 xii (May 24, 1817), 197–198.

8 The Portico, A Repository of Science and Literature, Stephen Simpson, Tobias Watkins, and John Neal, editors (Neale, Wills and Cole, Baltimore: 1816–1818).

9 Portico, ii (Aug., 1816), 111–112.

10 Ibid., i (Jan., 1816), 47.

11 Ibid., ii (Dec, 1816), i, ii, iii.

12 Ibid., ii, 119.

13 Ibid., ii, 120.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 252–257.

16 Ibid., p. 120.

17 Ibid., ii (Aug., 1816), 115.

18 Ibid., 294.

19 Ibid., pp. i, il, iii.

20 Ibid., i (June, 1816), 474.

21 Ibid., ii (Aug., 1816), 123–126.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 225–227.

25 Ibid., ii (Aug., 1816), 123–126.

26 Ibid., i (May, 1816), 381.

27 Ibid., i (April, 1816), 329; iv (Feb., 1817), 95, 98, 157.

28 Ibid., ii, 449.

29 Ibid., iii (Jan., 1817), 29–32.

30 Ibid., ii (Aug., 1816), 110–111.

31 Ibid., ii (Oct., 1816), 293.

32 Ibid., ii (Dec, 1816), 486.

33 Ibid., iii (March, 1817), 172.

34 Ibid., iii (Jan., 1817), 33.

35 Ibid., iii (Jan., 1817), 23–33.

36 Ibid., ii (Dec., 1816), 448–449.

37 Ibid., ii, 449.

38 Ibid., ii, 453.

39 Ibid., ii, 454.

40 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 261–264.

41 Ibid., ii (Oct., 1816), 341.

42 Ibid., ii (Nov., 1816), 423–424.

43 Ibid., i (Jan., 1816), 75.

44 Ibid., i (Feb., 1816), 494.

45 Ibid., iii (June, 1817), 429, 430, 434.

46 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 261–263, 274.

47 Ibid., ii (Oct., 1816), 382–383, 293.

48 Ibid., v (Jan., Feb., March, 1818), 123.

49 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 439.

50 Ibid., v (Jan., Feb., March, 1818), 123.

51 Ibid., v, 63–66.

52 Ibid., ii (Sept., 1816), 237.

53 Ibid., v (April, May, June, 1818), 245.

54 Ibid., ii (July, 1816), 92.

55 Ibid.