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Reviewed on February 1, 2012 | Arts and Humanities
Goodman (English, Univ. of Delaware; Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners) offers a vivid picture of mid-19th- and early 20th-century life as interpreted through the erudite pages of the Atlantic Monthly. Founded in Boston in 1857 by a group that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the magazine continues to publish today. Goodman approaches her...Log In or Sign Up to Read More