Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin. Committes of Publication CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORS FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, Economics, Political Science, and History WILLIAM HERbert Hobbs, Science NELSON OLIVER WHITNEY, Engineering List of Bulletins Issued ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY SERIES, Volume 1: No. 1. The Geographical Distribution of the Vote of the Thirteen States on the Federal Constitution, 1787-8, by Orin Grant Libby, A. M., Fellow in History, with an introduction by Frederick J. Turner. Pp. 116 pls. 2, July, 1894. Price 75 cents. No. 2. The Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789, with Especial Reference to the Budget, by Charles J. Bullock, A. B., Fellow in Economics. Pp. 157, June, 1895. Price 75 cents. No. 3. The Province of Quebec, and the Early American Revolution, A study in English-American Colonial History, by Victor Coffin, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of European History. Pp. 307, June, 1896. Price 75 cents. ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY SERIES, Volume 2: No. 1. New Governments West of the Alleghanies Before 1780. (Introductory to a study of the organization and admission of new states), by George Henry Alden, Acting Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois. A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History. Pp. 74, April, 1897. Price 50 cents. In preparation : Municipal History and Organization of the City of Chicago, by Samuel Edwin Sparling, Ph. D., Assistant in Political Science. PHILOLOGY AND LITERATURE SERIES, Volume 1: No. 1. On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833, by William B. Cairns, Ph. D., Instructor in Rhetoric. Pp. 87, March, 1898. Price 35 cents. PHILOLOGY AND LITERATURE SERIES, VOL. 1, No. 1, PP. 1–87. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1815 TO 1833 WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO PERIODICALS BY WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, PH. D. Instructor in Rhetoric in the University of Wisconsin PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF LAW AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF MADISON, WIS. PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY PRICE 35 CENTS PREFACE. The paper that follows is a preliminary contribution to the study of American literature from 1815 to 1833. Both the magnitude of the subject and the nature of the data that must be obtained, have made it impossible to attain even approximate completeness. The exact direction of the studies that have been pursued was determined partly by the nature of the subject, and partly by circumstances. Almost at the outset it was found that American magazines of the period under consideration are surprisingly numerous; and a little further research seemed to show that in them, rather than in published volumes, is to be found the most valuable material for the literary history of the time. The author soon found, also, that the library in which he must work the collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin-while but fairly well equipped with books of the period, was, in respect to magazines, unequalled in the West, and probably unexcelled anywhere. For these two reasons, especial attention has been given to this class of publications. An attempt has been made to consider the social and economic conditions that had a bearing on the development of literature, but the writings of individual men have been touched but briefly or not at all. Even the list of periodicals given is of necessity incomplete. It is hoped that the publication of this paper may make easier the collection of additional data, and that it may possibly induce others to investigate some phases of literary de velopment in America during the same period. The author wishes to express his obligations to Prof. J. C. Freeman, under whose general supervision the study has been carried on; to Prof. F. G. Hubbard, who has given many help ful suggestions throughout the progress of the work, and who has read both the manuscript and the proof-sheets; to Prof. F. J. Turner, whose suggestions regarding authorities and methods of work have proved invaluable; and to Mr. W. M. Smith, who has given sympathetic aid in various ways. Especial mention must be made of the uniform courtesies of the library staff of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, upon whose good nature the author feels that he has often imposed. |