This collaborative book derives from the 2006 Bristol University Conference on periodicals culture in the Romantic era.
The essays in this collection indicate that the periodical text presented a novel and challenging medium in the Romantic period and enabled a particularly vibrant and varied genre.
Contents
Simon Hull “˜Editing Elia: Lamb, the London, and the Essayistic Figure”
John Halliwell Loyalist Satire, Parody, and The Anti-Jacobin
Richard Cronin Magazines and Romantic Modernity
Wendy Hunter “˜A Powerful Engine of Social Improvement”: James Hogg
and Chambers” Edinburgh Journal
Michael Bradshaw “˜Bloody John Lacy”:The London Magazine and the Doldrums of English Drama
ohn Strachan Fighting Sports and late Georgian Periodical Culture
About the author
Simon Hull is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Alfaisal University. He is writing a monograph on periodical writing and metropolitan culture in the 1820s, as embodied in the essays of Charles Lamb, to be published by Pickering & Chatto in 2010.
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