Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs : Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 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
- 820.9/3581
- PR468.P37F36 2010
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.
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