Putnam's Magazine

{{Distinguish|Putnam Magazine|G. P. Putnam's Sons}} {{redirect|Putnam's|the community in California formerly called Putnam's|Independence, California}} {{short description|American monthly periodical (1853–1910)}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Putnam’s Monthly.jpg | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = Number 25, January 1855 (Vol. 5, No. 1) | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = George Palmer Putnam | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date|1853}} | finaldate = 1910 | company = G. P. Putnam's Sons | country = United States | based = New York, New York | language = English | website =  | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art''''' was a monthly periodical published by G. P. Putnam's Sons featuring American literature and articles on science, art, and politics.

==Series== The magazine had three incarnations. Ten semiannual volumes of six issues were published from 1853 to 1857 (vols. 1–10) and six from 1868 to 1870 (vols. 1–6, second series). Cornell University Library numbers them consecutively, vols. 1–16.<ref name="vol1">{{cite web |url=https://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/p/putn/putn.html |title=Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art |publisher=Cornell University Library |accessdate=November 9, 2015}}</ref> The 1906–1910 version restarts numbering at Volume 1.<ref name="vol2">{{cite web |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000675569 |title=Putnam's Magazine |publisher=HathiTrust |accessdate=November 9, 2015}}</ref> ===1853–1857 === First, it was edited by Charles Frederick Briggs from January 1853 to September 1857 (whereupon it merged with ''Emerson's United States Magazine''); It was founded by George Palmer Putnam, who intended it to be a vehicle for publishing the best of new American writing; a circular that Putnam sent to prospective authors (including Herman Melville) announced that the magazine would be 'as essentially an organ of American thought as possible'.<ref>{{cite book|last=Melville|first=Herman|title=Correspondence|year=1993|publisher=Northwestern University Press|location=Evanston|isbn=0810109956|page=627|edition=The Northwestern-Newberry}}</ref> Putnam saw an opportunity to create a magazine that would compete with the successful ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', which drew much of its content from British periodicals. As publishing only American writing would distinguish ''Putnam's'' from ''Harper's'' and give the former unique status in the marketplace, Ezra Greenspan has argued that the magazine's literary nationalism was ‘a shrewd mixture of ideological altruism and publishing acumen’.<ref>{{cite book |last=Greenspan |first=Ezra |title=Periodical literature in nineteenth-century America |year=1995 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |location=Charlottesville |isbn=0813916291 |edition=First |editor2-last=Smith |editor2-first=Susan Belasco |editor1-last=Price |editor1-first=Kenneth M |chapter=Addressing or Redressing the Magazine Audience: Edmund Quincey’s Wensley}}</ref> Frederick Law Olmsted and George William Curtis served as its owners and editors in its final two years.<ref name="magazines">{{cite journal |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/nov/05/frederick-law-olmsted-americas-green-giant/ |title=America's Green Giant |last=Filler |first=Martin |authorlink=Martin Filler |date=November 5, 2015 |volume=62 |number=17 |journal=New York Review of Books |accessdate=November 8, 2015}}</ref>

===1868–1870 === {{Expand section|more details|date=January 2018}} Edited by C. F. Briggs, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Parke Godwin from January 1868 to November 1870, whereupon it merged with ''Scribner's Monthly''.

=== 1906–1910 === {{Expand section|more details|date=January 2018}} The 1853 ''Putnam's Magazine'' was revived as ''Putnam's Monthly'' and merged with {{anchor|The Critic}}''The Critic'', which started publication in 1881 (or 1884?), and had been issued by Putnam's since 1898. The name of the merged publication was ''Putnam's Monthly and the Critic''.<ref>Harvard College Library Catalog, [http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990072898190203941/catalog]</ref>

It was edited by Jeannette Gilder and Joseph Gilder from October 1906 to April 1910, known as ''The Critic and Literary World'', when it merged with the ''Atlantic Monthly''.

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==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |search=( title:"Putnam's" AND title:Magazine AND mediatype:texts ) |dname=''Putnam's Magazine''}} * {{cite web | title=Catalog Record: Putnam's monthly | website=HathiTrust Digital Library | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000542163}} * {{cite web | title=Catalog Record: Putnam's magazine | website=HathiTrust Digital Library | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008696298}} * {{cite web | title=''The Critic'' archives | website=The Online Books Page | url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=thecritic}}

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