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Harper's Weekly
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Harper's Weekly
(1857–1916), illustrated political and literary journal. Although it always published serials, including works by Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Bulwer-Lytton, it was best known for its engravings and woodcuts, which constitute a pictorial history of the times. In 1862 Thomas Nast joined the staff, and made the magazine notable for its war pictures and political cartoons. His bitter caricatures of the corrupt Tweed Ring did much to shape public opinion, as did his cartoons, which created the accepted symbols of the Tammany tiger, the ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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