[The first purpose of this work is to present a literary
history of the Atlantic Monthly between 1909 and 1929. The
second is to observe the decline of the genteel tradition in
American intellectual life. In 1909 Ellery Sedgwick began
his twenty-eight year editorship of the magazine and gradually
but thoroughly remade its editorial policy, emphasizing current
affairs and supplementing belles-lettres with less
formal narratives of personal experience.
Sedgwick's literary tastes were relatively conservative
and those of his readers, who included vieilles filles of
both sexes, more so. But the magazine continued to attract
serious writers. During Sedgwick's first decade he published
fiction and essays by Edith Wharton, J.J. Chapman, Owen
Wister, H.L. Mencken, Agnes Repplier, Gamaliel Bradford,
John Galsworthy, Laurence Binyon, F.L. Lucas, John Buchan,
Edward Garnett, Havelock Ellis, John Masefield, H.G. Wells
and Bertrand Russell. The traditional English literary
influence remained strong.]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/49041 |
| Date | January 1978 |
| Creators | Sedgwick III, Ellery |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | This work is being made available in OpenBU by permission of its author, and is available for research purposes only. All rights are reserved to the author. |
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