Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-colour fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the US's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South. In many ways, he attests, the national representation of the South was controlled more firmly by periodical editors working in the Northeast than by writers living in and writing about the region.
