British Periodicals and Romantic Identity

The Literary Lower Empire
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-37601-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social information and the arbiters of literary and artistic taste. British Periodicals and Romantic Identity explores how periodicals such as the Edinburgh, Blackwood s, and the Westminster became the repositories and creators of "public opinion." In addition, Schoenfield examines how particular figures, both inside and outside the editorial apparatus of the reviews and magazines, negotiated this public and rapidly professionalized space. Ranging from Lord Byron, whose self-identification as lord and poet anticipated his public image in the periodicals, to William Hazlitt, equally journalist and subject of the reviews, this engaging study explores both canonical figures and canon makers in the periodicals and positions them as a centralizing force inthe consolidation of Romantic print culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schoenfield, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: CULTURE WARS IN THE LOWER EMPIRE Skirmishes in the Lower Empire Incorporating Voices: The Edinburgh Review Proliferating Voices: The Quarterly and the Maga Soldiers of Fortune in the Periodical Wars Repeating Selves: Hume, Hazlitt and Periodical Repetition Lord Byron among the Reviews Abraham Goldsmid: Financial Magician and the Public Image Spying James Hogg's Bristle in Blackwood's Magazine

Über Autor(innen)

MARK SCHOENFIELD is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Professional Wordsworth: Law, Labor, and the Poet's Contract. He is the former president of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies and has published articles in The Wordsworth Circle, Studies in Romanticism, and various other journals.