Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art

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Title

Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art

Coverage

New York

Publisher

G. P. Putnam & Company

Date

November 1853

Subject

Volume 2, number 11

Description

An important magazine designed to combine a serious review with a literary magazine. By emphasizing American writers, it was received as a rebuke of Harper’s Monthly, which freely reprinted British authors. This issue contains the first of a two-part serialization of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener.”