Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Yankee (later retitled The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette) was one of the first cultural publications in the United States, founded and edited by John Neal (1793–1876), and published in Portland, Maine, as a weekly periodical and later converted to a longer, monthly format. Its two-year run concluded at the end of 1829.
John Neal in 1874 from Portland Illustrated. The bibliography of American writer John Neal (1793–1876) spans more than sixty years from the War of 1812 through the Reconstruction era and includes novels, short stories, poetry, articles, plays, lectures, and translations published in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, gift books, pamphlets, and books.
John Neal in 1856. Articles by American writer John Neal (1793–1876) influenced the development of American literature towards cultural independence and a unique style. They were published in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals and are part of the John Neal bibliography. They include his first known published work and pieces ...
John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, championing American literary nationalism and regionalism in their earliest stages.
Neal also published two reviews of his own novel in his magazine The Yankee. [86] Speaking of himself in the third person, he repeated a sentiment in the "Unpublished Preface" that it is his best work, but that he is capable of better: "It is the best thing of the sort ever produced by John Neal, though not altogether such a work as might have ...
In 1825 John Neal wrote the novel Brother Jonathan: or, ... Yankee Notions, or Whittlings of Jonathan's Jack-Knife was a high-quality humor magazine, ...
Neal later used sections cut during those revision processes to create other works, including the essay "The Character of the Real Yankees" (The New Monthly Magazine 1826), [30] the fiction series "Sketches from Life" (The Yankee 1828–1829), [31] the fictional fragment "Males and Females" (The Yankee April 9, 1829), [32] the short story ...
John Neal in 1823 Seventy-Six is a response to James Fenimore Cooper 's first popular novel, The Spy , which was published in late 1821. [ 36 ] Neal praised it as "exceedingly attractive" [ 37 ] and "a capital novel", but dismissed its style as "without peculiarity—brilliancy, or force" [ 38 ] and its plot as "rather too full of stage-tricks ...