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| Editor and publisher | Lewis Gaylord Clark |
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| Staff writers | Washington Irving, Francis Parkman, James Russell Lowell |
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Founded | 1833 |
| Final issue | October 1865 |
| Country | The United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865. Its long-term editor and publisher was Lewis Gaylord Clark, whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine.
The circle of writers who contributed to the magazine and populated its cultural milieu are often known as the "Knickerbocker writers" or the "Knickerbocker Group". The group included such authors as William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and many others.[1]
The Knickerbocker was devoted to the fine arts in particular with occasional news, editorials and a few full-length biographical sketches.[1] The magazine was one of the earliest literary vehicles for communication about the United States' "vanishing wilderness." As such, The Knickerbocker may be considered one of the earliest proto-environmental magazines in the United States.[2]
- ^ a b Callow, James T. (1967). Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807–1855. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
- ^ Nash, Roderick F (2001). Wilderness and the American Mind (4th ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 97–99. ISBN 9780300091229.