A Volume of a "Different Hue": Transatlantic Print and the Making of the Aurora Borealis, a Quaker Literary Annual.
This article directs attention to a short-lived Quaker literary annual, the Aurora Borealis. It was immediately successful on both sides of the Atlantic. However, its editors discontinued their work after a single issue when faced with the opposition of London publishers who saw it as a threat to th...
| Publicado en: | Early American Literature Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 123 - 154 |
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University of North Carolina Press
2026
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