Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs : Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship.
Fang, Karen.
Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs : Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empire, Periodicals, and Late Romantic Writing -- Chapter One: China for Sale: Porcelain Economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Chapter Two: Deciphering The Private Memoirs: James Hogg's Napoleon Complex -- Chapter Three: "But Another Name for Her Who Wrote": Corinne and the Making of Landon's Giftbook Style -- Chapter Four: Only "a Little above the Usual Run of Periodical Poesy": Byron's Island and the Liberal -- Conclusion: Space, Time, and the Periodical Collaborator -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.
9780813928821
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
British periodicals--History--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Imperialism in literature.
Orientalism in literature.
Periodicals--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Electronic books.
PR468.P37F36 2010
820.9/3581
Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs : Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empire, Periodicals, and Late Romantic Writing -- Chapter One: China for Sale: Porcelain Economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Chapter Two: Deciphering The Private Memoirs: James Hogg's Napoleon Complex -- Chapter Three: "But Another Name for Her Who Wrote": Corinne and the Making of Landon's Giftbook Style -- Chapter Four: Only "a Little above the Usual Run of Periodical Poesy": Byron's Island and the Liberal -- Conclusion: Space, Time, and the Periodical Collaborator -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.
9780813928821
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
British periodicals--History--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Imperialism in literature.
Orientalism in literature.
Periodicals--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Electronic books.
PR468.P37F36 2010
820.9/3581