Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture

2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-25178-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Age of the Magazine Urban, Hunt, North: Personality and the Principle of Miscellaneity Fighting Style in the Magazine Market Reading Magazines with a Cockney's Eye 'Distant Correspondents': Readers, Personalities and Elegy 'Our own emolument': Commerce and the Category of Literature Coda Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID STEWART Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Northumbria, UK. He has published a number of articles on Romanticism and print culture in journals such as , ,  & .