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Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books

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Lynda K. Yankaskas
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2019) 92 (4): 678–681.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00782
Published: 01 November 2019
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Origin Stories: The Boston Athenæum, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and Regional Rivalry in the Early Republic

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Lynda K. Yankaskas
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2016) 89 (4): 614–642.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00566
Published: 01 December 2016
Abstract
This essay critically examines and revises the story of the 1807 founding of the Boston Athenæum. The institution was said to be inspired by a written description of the Athenæum of Liverpool (UK), but I argue that this traditional story is a fabrication, one knowingly invented by Boston's men of letters.
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