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The Yankee

The Yankee (later retitled The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette) was one of the first cultural publications in the United States, founded and edited by John Neal (1793–1876), and published in Portland, Maine as a weekly periodical and later converted to a longer, monthly format. Its two-year run concluded at the end of 1829. The magazine is considered unique for its independent journalism at the time.

This article is about a literary magazine published 1828–1829. For the magazine founded in 1935, see Yankee (magazine).

Editor

John Neal

Literature, gymnastics, New England, England, art, theater, politics, utilitarianism, women's rights

Weekly (January 1, 1828 – July 3, 1829)
Monthly (July–December 1829)

John Neal

January 1, 1828

December 1829

Portland, Maine, US

Neal used creative control of the magazine to improve his social status, help establish the American gymnastics movement, cover national politics, and critique American literature, art, theater, and social issues. Essays by Neal on American art and theater anticipated major changes and movements in those fields realized in the following decades. Conflicting opinions published in The Yankee on the cultural identity of Maine and New England presented readers with a complex portrait of the region.


Many new, predominantly female, writers and editors started their careers with contributions and criticism of their work published in The Yankee, including many who are familiar to modern readers. The articles on women's rights and early feminist ideas affirmed intellectual equality between men and women and demanded political and economic rights for women.

Barry, William D. (May 20, 1979). "State's Father of Athletics a Multi-Faceted Figure". Maine Sunday Telegram. Portland, Maine. pp. 1D–2D.

Brennan, Dennis (2014). The Making of an Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison's Path to Publishing the Liberator. Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland.  978-1-4766-1535-6.

ISBN

(August 31, 1833). "Letters from the East—John Neal". New-York Mirror. Vol. 11, no. 1833–1834. New York City, New York: G.P. Morris. pp. 69–70, 76–77, 84–85, 92–93, 100–101, 109, 117–118. A serial biography of Neal.

Brooks, James

Dickson, Harold Edward (1943). Observations on American Art: Selections from the Writings of John Neal (1793–1876). State College, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State College.  775870.

OCLC

Elwell, Edward H. (1877). "Historical Sketches: Cumberland County". In Wood, Joseph (ed.). . Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co. pp. 22–31. OCLC 7158022. Source URL includes multiple separate publications bundled together.

Fourteenth Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, for the Year 1877

Fleischmann, Fritz (1983). A Right View of the Subject: Feminism in the Works of Charles Brockden Brown and John Neal. Erlangen, Germany: Verlag Palm & Enke Erlangen.  978-3-7896-0147-7.

ISBN

Holt, Kerin (2012). "Chapter 9: Here, There, and Everywhere: The Elusive Regionalism of John Neal". John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. pp. 185–208. In .

Watts & Carlson (2012)

Kayorie, James Stephen Merritt (2019). "John Neal (1793–1876)". In Baumgartner, Jody C. (ed.). American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 86–91.  9781440854866.

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Lease, Benjamin (1972). That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.  978-0-226-46969-0.

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McCoubrey, John W. (1965). American Art 1700–1960. Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: . OCLC 503223.

Prentice Hall

McNallie, Robin (1973). . Maine Historical Society Quarterly. 13 (1): 55–60.

"Book Review: That Wild Fellow John Neal and the American Literary Revolution, by Benjamin Lease"

Meserve, Walter J. (1986). Heralds of Promise: The Drama of the American People During the Age of Jackson 1829-1849. New York City, New York: Greenwood Press.  978-0-313-25015-6.

ISBN

, ed. (1828). "The Yankee". The Yankee. Vol. 1. Portland, Maine: James Adams, Jr. OCLC 10256341.

Neal, John

(2002). "'The Real Pioneer of Art in this City': Charles Codman and the Rise of Landscape Painting in Portland, Maine". Charles Codman: The Landscape of Art and Culture in 19th-Century Maine. Portland, Maine: Portland Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-916857-32-5.

Nicoll, Jessica

Orestano, Francesca (2012). "Chapter 6: John Neal, the Rise of the Critick, and the Rise of American Art". John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. pp. 123–144. In .

Watts & Carlson (2012)

Pollard, John A. (1943). . Bulletin of Friends Historical Association. 32 (1): 5–12. doi:10.1353/qkh.1943.a395387. JSTOR 41944216.

"John Neal, Doctor of American Literature"

Price, H. H.; Talbot, Gerald E. (2006). "Sports". In Price, H. H.; Talbot, Gerald (eds.). Maine's Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House. pp. 190–192.  978-0-88448-275-8.

ISBN

Richards, Irving T. (1933). (PhD thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 7588473.

The Life and Works of John Neal

Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers.  978-0-8057-7230-2.

ISBN

Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J., eds. (2012). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press.  978-1-61148-420-5.

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Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. pp. 227–246. In .

Watts & Carlson (2012)

available at Internet Archive

Every issue of The Yankee and The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette

available through HathiTrust

The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette new series volume 1 (July–December 1829)