| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.4

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History online. About 154 words from this article are provided below; about 374 words remain.

If you are an individual member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, you can:: • join here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History.
Instititutions can:: • Join the Society or subscribe to the journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Reviews

Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy, and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review. By Scott Slawinski. (New York: Routledge, 2005. ix, 128p. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.)

In the wealth of studies on the work of Charles Brockden Brown, scholars have largely overlooked the periodical contributions of America's first great novelist. Scott Slawinski seeks to remedy this oversight in his study of the Monthly Magazine and American Review, which Brown edited from 1799 to 1800. Slawinski focuses on issues of gender in the publication, specifically masculinity. Building on the work of Mark Kann and others, Slawinski notes that bachelors in the early republic "were typecast as socially disruptive" (p. 9) and demonized for unpatriotic selfishness. Being a bachelor himself during his editorship, "Brown attempted to establish a space where single men could find validation of their unmarried status" (p. 14) in the pages of the magazine.

. . .

There are about 374 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.