Masked Aristocrats: Anonymity in Graham's Magazine, 1842 — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Masked Aristocrats: Anonymity in Graham's Magazine, 1842

Name: Joseph Hansen
Major: English and Music
Hometown: Omaha, NE
Faculty Sponsor: Shannon Brennan
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: SURE
Funding: SURE

Abstract

This research examines Graham’s Magazine in the year 1842. Graham’s Magazine is most famous for being the original publishing ground of several of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, and Poe himself worked as an editor there for a time. Although most research does not assign much literary value to the other stories published in this magazine, this paper observes a trend in the use of anonymity in these mostly unknown stories to both subvert and reinforce the class structure. In doing this, I discover that the class structure of Jacksonian democracy affects creative works on both the canonical and non-canonical level.

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