The Gentleman's Magazine
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| + | "[[Honoré de Balzac|His]] diagnosis of the evils of his time is as searching as it is fearless, and yet exhibiting neither the pessimism of [[Henrik Ibsen |Ibsen]] nor the moral [[squalor]] of [[Émile Zola |Zola]], with his gospel of [[sordid]] facts unrelieved by any spiritual aspiration." --''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'', 1894 | ||
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| - | :"Rowlandson's [[sexually explicit prints]] are well-known to scholars of [[British Romanticism]]. Many were originally part of [[George IV]]'s collection at [[Windsor Castle]], and they are now scattered among various public institutions—the [[Library of Congress]], the [[British Museum]], the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], to name a few—and in private collections in this country and abroad. A significant number of these prints have been reproduced and are currently available in two book-length collections, [[Gert Schiff]]'s ''[[The Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson]]'' (1969) and [[Kurt von Meier]]'s ''[[The Forbidden Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson]]'' (1970), neither of which provides appropriate information either about individual prints or about the environment in which the prints originally appeared. (6) The result, however inadvertent, is that Rowlandson's work loses its historical specificity and is transformed by editorial fiat into the "amorous illustrations" or "forbidden erotica" of the title-page. Modern readers are thus asked to create a kind of "pornography" of which they themselves are the source. Scholarship has provided little assistance. From the obituary that appeared in [[The Gentleman's Magazine]] in 1827, through all of those scholarly efforts by [[Joseph Grego]], [[A. P. Oppe]], [[Bernard Falk]], [[Arthur Heintzelman]], [[John Hayes]], [[Robert Wark]], [[John Riely]], and [[Ronald Paulson]], to the most recent books and articles, the details of history and biography yield time and again to scholarly speculation—occasionally informed, occasionally not. (7) We have, after all, only three of Rowlandson's own letters and only a handful of contemporary accounts of his colorful life. (8) On the other hand, we also have more than ten thousand drawings and prints in museums and libraries and private collections across the world. There is no other Romantic figure from whom we have so much and about whom we know so little. | ||
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| - | [[Reproduction]] of cover of [[hardboiled]] magazine ''[[Black Mask (magazine)|Black Mask]]'', October [[1934]], featuring "[[Finger Man]]," by hardboiled pioneer [[Raymond Chandler]]—the first story featuring the detective character Chandler would develop into [[Philip Marlowe]] | ||
| + | '''''The Gentleman's Magazine''''' was founded in [[London]], [[England]], by [[Edward Cave]] in January, [[1731]]. The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer.'' Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotes and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "[[magazine]]" (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. The iconic illustration of [[St John's Gate, Clerkenwell|St John's Gate]] on the front of each issue (occasionally updated over the years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's 'office'. | ||
| - | <hr> | + | Prior to the founding of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', there had been specialized journals, but no such wide-ranging publication (though there had been attempts, such as ''The Gentleman's Journal'', which was edited by [[Peter Anthony Motteux|Peter Motteux]] and ran from 1692 to 1694). |
| - | [[Montfaucon]] was also used during the first half of the 19th century as a [[waste dump]] where all of [[Paris]]'s [[excrement]] was taken and left to rot. [[Montfaucon]] closed in 1850. It's potent symbolism of the immorality of ... The [[sewage dump]] moved to [[Bondy]], much farther north of the city. This .. | + | |
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| - | "'''[[Les lunettes]]'''" is a poem from the [[Nouveaux contes]] by [[La Fontaine]]. The final scene has been illustrated by [[Johann Heinrich Ramberg]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Heinrich_Ramberg_Entdeckung.jpg] and [[Thomas Rowlandson]][http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2001/v/n23/005988arf040n.jpg]. | + | |
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| - | [[Jules Gay]]: ''[[Iconographie des estampes à sujets galants et des portraits de femmes célèbres par leur beauté. Indiquant les sujets, les peintres, les graveurs de ces estampes, leur valeur et leur prix dans les ventes]]'', [[1868]] | + | |
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| - | [[Of some Etchings and Drawings, amatory or obscene, by Thomas Rowlandson]] by [[Pisanus Fraxi]]. | + | |
| - | <hr> | + | [[Samuel Johnson]]'s first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. During a time when parliamentary reporting was banned, Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia". Though they reflected the positions of the participants, the words of the debates were mostly Johnson's own. The name ''[[Columbia (name)|Columbia]]'', a poetic name for America coined by Johnson, first appears in a 1738 weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in the Magazine. |
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| - | - [[Klaus Kinski]] (''[[My Best Fiend]]'') | + | Cave, a skilled businessman, developed an extensive distribution system for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. It was read throughout the English-speaking world, and continued to flourish through the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, latter under a series of different editors and publishers. It went into decline in the later nineteenth century, and finally ceased general publication in September 1907. However, issues consisting of four pages each were printed in very small editions between late 1907 and 1922 in order to keep the title formally 'in print'. |
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| - | The significance of the absence of men in [[fishermen's village]]s is also testified to by the fact that the first [[dildo]]s were found in fishermen’s villages. See [[Fisherman's Wife]] | + | ==Series== |
| - | <hr> | + | *1731-1735 The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer |
| - | [[Esther & the King]] [[Joan Collins]] ◊ [[Richard Egan]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_CsPuB2u_I&] | + | *1736-1833 The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle |
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| - | [[Ralph Gibson]] and [[Venus in America]]. | + | *1856 (July)-1868 (May) New Series: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review |
| + | *1868 (June)-1922 Entirely New Series: The Gentleman's Magazine | ||
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The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January, 1731. The original complete title was The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotes and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine" (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. The iconic illustration of St John's Gate on the front of each issue (occasionally updated over the years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's 'office'.
Prior to the founding of The Gentleman's Magazine, there had been specialized journals, but no such wide-ranging publication (though there had been attempts, such as The Gentleman's Journal, which was edited by Peter Motteux and ran from 1692 to 1694).
Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with The Gentleman's Magazine. During a time when parliamentary reporting was banned, Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia". Though they reflected the positions of the participants, the words of the debates were mostly Johnson's own. The name Columbia, a poetic name for America coined by Johnson, first appears in a 1738 weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in the Magazine.
Cave, a skilled businessman, developed an extensive distribution system for The Gentleman's Magazine. It was read throughout the English-speaking world, and continued to flourish through the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, latter under a series of different editors and publishers. It went into decline in the later nineteenth century, and finally ceased general publication in September 1907. However, issues consisting of four pages each were printed in very small editions between late 1907 and 1922 in order to keep the title formally 'in print'.
Series
- 1731-1735 The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer
- 1736-1833 The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
- 1834-1856 (June) New Series: The Gentleman's Magazine
- 1856 (July)-1868 (May) New Series: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
- 1868 (June)-1922 Entirely New Series: The Gentleman's Magazine
See also
