Romantic writing and the empire of signs
Subtitle: periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship
By: Karen Fang
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813928746; 9780813928821
Description: "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 also to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing; title: China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia; title: Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex; title: "But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style; title: Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal; title: Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.