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 ofand 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. DAVID STEWART Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Northumbria, UK. He has published a number of articleson Romanticism and print culture in journals such as 'Romanticism', 'Prose Studies', 'Keats-Shelley Journal' & 'Studies in English Literature 1500-1900'. INDICE: 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-25178-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2011
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- Idioma: Desconocido