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Harper's Magazine
Pays	États-Unis
Langue	Anglais
Périodicité	Mensuel
Genre	Presse généraliste
Diffusion	plus de 200 000 ex. (2005)
Date de fondation	1850
Ville d’édition	New York
Rédacteur en chef	Lewis H. Lapham
ISSN	0017-789X
Site web	Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (communément appelé Harper's) est un magazine mensuel généraliste américain traitant de littérature, de politique, de culutre et d'art. Il s'agit du plus ancien mensuel publié, sans interruption, aux États-Unis. Chaque numéro se vend actuellement à plus de 200 000 exemplaires et son rédacteur en chef, depuis 1971, en est Lewis H. Lapham.

Harper's a été lancé en 1850 par Harper & Brothers, une société new-yorkaise, dédiée à l'origine à la publication de livres. La première édition (juin 1850), tirée à 7 500 exemplaires, se vendit immédiatement provoquant une rupture de stocks. Moins de six mois plus tard, le mensuel était tiré à 50 000 exemplaires.

Si les premiers numéros consistaient surtout en une reprise de contenus déjà publiés en Angleterre, ce ne fut pas longtemps le cas, le mensuel laissant vite une large place aux artistes et écrivains américains, parmi lesquels figurent Horace Greeley, Horatio Alger, Stephen A. Douglas, Winslow Homer, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, Theodore Dreiser, John Muir, Booth Tarkington, Henry James, William Dean Howells et Jack London.

Plus récemment furent publiés des commentaires de personnalités politiques de premier plan, tels que Winston Churchill ou Woodrow Wilson.

Au fil du temps, le magazine a profondément changé au niveau de la présentation générale et du contenu. En 1962, Harper & Brothers a fusionné avec Row, Peterson, & Company pour devenir Harper & Row (de nos jours HarperCollins). Plus tard, le magazine devint une société séparée, division du Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company. En 1980, lorsque la société mère annonce que le Harper's Magazine pourrait cesser toute publication, John Rick MacArthur et son père, Roderick, insistent pour que la Direction de la John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation et de l' Atlantic Richfield Company lèvent des fonds pour former la Harper’s Magazine Foundation, fondation qui gére encore actuellement la société.

Several departments served to note regularly important events of the day, such as the publication of Herman Melville's new novel Moby-Dick; the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable; the latest discoveries from Thomas Edison's workshop; the progress of the crusade for women's rights.

In more recent years, the magazine published Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill long before either man became a political leader. Theodore Roosevelt wrote for Harper’s, as did Henry L. Stimson when he defended the bombing of Hiroshima. In the 1970s, Harper’s Magazine broke Seymour Hersh's account of the My Lai massacre and devoted a full issue to Norman Mailer's “The Prisoner of Sex.”

Over the years, the magazine's format has been revamped, its general appearance has evolved considerably, and ownership has changed hands. In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson, & Company to become Harper & Row (now HarperCollins). Some years later the magazine became a separate corporation and a division of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company. In 1980, when the parent company announced that Harper’s Magazine would cease publication, John R. (Rick) MacArthur and his father, Roderick, urged the boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Atlantic Richfield Company to make a grant of assets and funds to form the Harper’s Magazine Foundation, which now operates the magazine.

En 1984, Harper’s Magazine a été revu de fonds en combles par la rédacteur en chef, Lewis H. Lapham et le président de la fondation, John Rick MacArthur.

In 1984, Harper’s Magazine was completely redesigned by editor Lewis H. Lapham and MacArthur, who had become publisher of Harper’s Magazine and president of the Foundation. Recognizing the time constraints of the modern reader, the revived magazine introduced such original journalistic forms as the Harper’s Index, Readings, and the Annotation to complement its acclaimed fiction, essays, and reporting. Throughout the years Harper’s has received eleven National Magazine Awards, among many other journalistic and literary honors.

L'année 2000 coincida avec le 150 anniversaire de la fondation du magazine et Harper's en profita pour introduire de

The year 2000 marked the sesquicentennial of Harper’s Magazine and, to celebrate, the magazine has introduced several new editorial inventions and restorations: Archive, Map, and Review. It has also published An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper’s Magazine, a 712-page illustrated anthology -- with an introduction by Lewis H. Lapham and a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- a cloth-bound volume that offers a unique perspective on American life, distilled from the pages of the nation's oldest continuously published monthly magazine.

Présentation générale du journal

En 1850

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, of which this is the initial number, will be published every month, at the rate of three dollars per annum. Each number will contain as great an amount and variety of reading matter, and at least as many pictorial illustrations, and will be published in the same general style, as the present.

The design of the Publishers, in issuing this work, is to place within the reach of the great mass of the American people the unbounded treasures of the Periodical Literature of the present day. Periodicals enlist and avbsorb much of the literary talent, the creative genius, the scholarly accomplishment of the present age. The best writers, in all departments and in every nation, devote themselves mainly to the Reviews, Magazines, or Newspapers of the day. And it is through their pages that the most powerful Historical Essays, the most elaborate critical Disquisitions, the most eloquent delineations of Manners and of Nature, the highest Poetry and the most brilliant Wit, have, within the last ten years, found their way to the public eye and the public heart.

This devotion to Periodical writing is rapidly increasing. The leading authors of Great Britain and of France, as well as of the United States, are regular and constant contributors to the Periodicals of their several countries. The leading statesmen of France have been for years the leading writers in her journals. LAMARTINE has just become the editor of a newspaper. DICKENS has just established a weekly journal of his own, through which he is giving to the world some of the most exquisite and delightful creations that ever came from his magic pen.

ALISON writes constantly for Blackwood . LEVER is enlisted in the Dublin University Magazine. BULWER and CROLY publish their greatest and most brilliant novels first in the pages of the Monthly Magazines of England and of Scotland. MACAULAY, the greatest of living Essayists and Historians, has enriched the Edinburgh Review with volumes of the most magnificent productions of English Literature. And so it is with all the living authors of England. The ablest and the best of their productions are to be found in Magazines. The wealth and freshness of the Literature of the Nineteenth Century are embodied in the pages of its Periodicals.

The Weekly and Daily Journals of England, France, and America, moreover, abound in the most brilliant contributions in every department of intellectual effort. The current of Political Events, in an age of unexampled political activity, can be traced only through their columns. Scientific discovery, Mechanical inventions, the creations of Fine Art, the Orations of Statesmen, all the varied intellectual movements of this most stirring and productive age, find their only record upon these multiplied and ephemeral pages.

It is obviously impossible that all these sources of instruction and of interest should be accessible to any considerable number even of the reading public, much less that the great mass of this people of this country should have any opportunity of becoming familiar with them. They are scattered through scores and hundreds of magazines and journals, intermingled with much that is of merely local and transient interest, and are thus hopelessly excluded from the knowledge and the reach of readers at large.

The Publishers of the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE intend to remedy this evil, and to place every thing of the Periodical Literature of the day, which has permanent value and commanding interest, in the hands of all who have the slightest desire to become acquainted with it. Each number will contain 144 octavo pages, in double columns: the volumes of a single year, therefore, will present nearly two thousand pages of the choicest and most attractive of the Miscellaneous Literature of the Age. The MAGAZINE will transfer to its pages as rapidly as they may be issued all the continuous tales of DICKENS, BULWER, CROLY, LEVER, WARREN , and other distinguished contributors to British Periodicals: articles of commanding interest from all the leading Quarterly Reviews of both Great Britain and the United States: Critical Notices of the current publications of the day: Speeches and Addresses of distinguished men upon topics of universal interest and importance: Notices of Scientific discoveries, of the progress and fruits of antiquarian research, of mechanical inventions, of incidents of travel and exploration, and generally of all the events, in Science, Literature, and Art in which the people at large have any interest. Constant and special regard will be had to such articles as relate to the Economy of Social and Domestic Life, or tend to promote in any way the education, advancement, and well-being of those who are engaged in any department of productive activity. A carefully prepared Fashion Plate, and other pictorial illustrations, will also accompany each number.

The MAGAZINE is not intended exclusively for any class of readers, or for any kind of reading. The Publishers have at their command the exhaustless resources of current Periodical Literature in all its departments. They have the aid of Editors in whom both they and the public have long since learned to repose full and implicit confidence. They have no doubt that, by a careful, industrious, and intelligent use of these appliances, they can present a Monthly Compendium of the periodical productions of the day which no one who has the slightest relish for miscellaneous reading, or the slightest desire to keep himself informed of the progress and results of the literary genius of his own age, would willingly be without. And they intend to publish it at so low a rate, and to give to it a value so much beyond its price, that it shall make its way into the hands or the family circle of every intelligent citizen of the United States.

Notes :

• 1. Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)—French poet and politician, famous for his poem “Le Lac” (The Lake).
• 2. Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867)—historial, social critic, and sheriff.
• 3. William Blackwood (1776-1834)—bookseller and publisher, most notably of Blackwood's Magazine, founded 1817; Blackwood's continued publishing until 1980.
• 4. Charles Lever (1806-1872)—novelist, physician, and diplomat whose success rivaled that of Dickens.
• 5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)—novelist whose Paul Clifford (1830) opens with “It was a dark and stormy night....”
• 6. George Croly (1780-1860)—author and hymnist, frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine.
• 7. Samuel Warren (1807-1877)—novelist and contributor to Blackwood's Magazine.

Aujourd'hui

Harper’s Magazine aims to provide readers with a unique perspective on the world. Harper’s editors sift through the culture's vast output of information, searching for gleaming points of significance, and each month present their findings via such original journalistic devices as the Harper’s Index, the Readings section, the Annotation, and the Map. The emphasis at Harper’s Magazine is on fine writing and original thought, and in its acclaimed essays, fiction, and reporting, Harper’s continues to explore the issues and ideas in politics, science, and the arts that drive our national conversation. Source : [1]

Harper's Magazine a pour but de fournir à ses lecteurs une perspective unique du monde. Les rédacteurs de Harper's Magazine passent au crible les nombreuses informations relatives à la culture, dans le but d'y débusquer les données les plus significatives et présentent leurs recherches aux lecteurs par le biais de procédés originaux (Harper’s Index, the Readings section, the Annotation et the Map). Harper's Magazine met l'accent sur la finesse d'écriture et sur l'originalité de sa pensée et ses sections reconnues tels que essais, fiction et reportages continuent à explorer les concepts et problèmatiques en politique, en science et en arts, ces mêmes sujets qui intéressent le peuple américain.

Contributeurs célèbres

• Horatio Alger
• Winston Churchill
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Theodore Dreiser
• Jonathan Franzen
• Horace Greeley
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Winslow Homer
• William Dean Howells
• Seymour Hersh
• Henry James
• Jack London
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow
• John Muir
• Frederic Remington
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Henry L. Stimson
• George Saunders
• Booth Tarkington
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Mark Twain
• John Updike
• David Foster Wallace
• Woodrow Wilson
• Susan Straight

Récompenses

13 National Magazine Awards depuis 1966, date de création de la récompense :

• 1977, catégorie Service to the Individual
• 1983, catégorie General Excellence (100,000 to 400,000)
• 1988, catégorie Essays & Criticism
• 1989, catégorie Essays & Criticism
• 1994, catégorie Essays & Criticism
• 1994, catégorie Feature Writing
• 1994, catégorie Fiction
• 1995, catégorie Essays & Criticism
• 1996, catégorie Fiction
• 1998, catégorie Feature Writing
• 1999, catégorie Fiction
• 2002, catégorie Reviews and Criticism
• 2003, catégorie Feature Writing

Source : [2]

13 O. Henry Awards gagnés depuis 1919, date de création de la récompense :

• Edgar Valentine Smith : Prelude, mai 1923
• Wilbur Daniel Steele : Bubbles, 1926
• Roarke Bradford : Child of God, avril 1927
• W.R. Burnett : Dressing-Up, novembre 1929
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : Gal Young Un, Juin et juillet 1932
• Kay Boyle : The White Horses of Vienna, 1935
• Albert Maltz : The Happiest Man on Earth, 1938
• William Faulkner : Barn Burning, 1939
• Eudora Welty : The Wide Net, 1942
• John Bell Clayton : The White Circle, 1947
• Wallace Stegner : The Blue-Winged Teal, 1950
• Ella Leffland : Last Courtesies, juillet 1976
• Joyce Johnson : The Children's Wing, juillet 1986

Source (de 1919 à 1999) : [3]

Réfèrence

• An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine, anthologie illustrée de 712 pages parue en 2000, avec une introduction de Lewis H. Lapham et un avant-propos d'Arthur Schlesinger Jr : sélection de 140 articles, nouvelles et poèmes parmi les 1 800 numéros du mensuel. Le choix est celui de Lewis H. Lapham, le rédacteur en chef au moment de la réalisation de ce livre, et d'Ellen Rosenbush, sa collaboratrice.

Source

• www.harpers.org/HarpersHistory

Lien externe

• (en) http://www.harpers.org/ Site officiel du magazine. Disponible uniquement en anglais.