The Analectic Magazine - Softcover

Washington Irving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371333008 ISBN 13: 9780371333006

Publisher: HardPress, 1813

Synopsis

The Analectic Magazine is a miscellany from a July 1814 issue of the early 19th-century periodical. It compiles reviews, biographical sketches, literary notices, and cultural criticism, spanning topics from music and military biography to sermons, art, Napoleon, poetry, and American literary developments. The contents include long critical essays on Nelsons letters, Kirwan’s sermons, and biographical sketches of Major General Winfield Scott; allegorical moral pieces like Vanity and Flattery; discussions of English painting, sculpture, and architecture; a portrait of Napoleon; poems and translations; domestic and foreign literary intelligence; obituary notices; and travel writing excerpts such as Mawe’s Brazil interior, Mudford’s Cumberland, and Zebulon Pike. Additional items survey Pacific warfare narratives, fireside sociability, monastic life, and the Defences of Fort McHenry. The issue also features broader cultural debates—patronage, literary merit, religious and moral concerns, and national self-definition—presented with admiration, critique, and historical curiosity. Overall, it offers a panoramic view of Enlightenment-aftershock culture in the early 19th century.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1813
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371333008
• ISBN 13: 9780371333006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552