Literary Magazines and British Romanticism

Mark Parker argues that magazines became pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s.

Mark Parker (Author)

9780521781923, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 February 2001

232 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg

'Literary Magazines and British Romanticism is a vivid and detailed picture of the intense intellectual life of magazines.' Romanticism

In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the London Magazine, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work - indeed, magazines became one of the pre-eminent literary forms of the 1820s and 1830s. Examining the dynamic relationship between literature and culture which evolved within this context, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism claims that writing in such a setting enters into a variety of alliances with other contributions and with ongoing institutional concerns that give subtle inflection to its meaning. The book provides an extended treatment of Lamb's Elia Essays, Hazlitt's Table-Talk Essays, Noctes Ambrosianae, and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus in their original contexts, and should be of interest to scholars of cultural and literary studies as well as Romanticists.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the study of literary magazines
1. Ideology and editing: the political context of the Elia essays
2. A conversation between friends: Hazlitt and the London Magazine
3. The burial of Romanticism: the first twenty installments of 'Noctes Ambrosianae'
4. Magazine Romanticism: the New Monthly, 1821–5
5. Sartor Resartus in Fraser's: toward a dialectical politics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]