Romantic writing and the empire of signs : periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship / Karen Fang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fang, Karen (Karen Y.), 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

British periodicals--History--19th century.

British periodicals.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Imperialism in literature.

Orientalism in literature.

Periodicals--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Periodicals.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing

China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia

Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex

"But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style

Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal

Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585653

9781280490422

128049042X

9780813928821

0813928826

OCLC:

753976355