British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The Literary Lower Empire

by Mark Schoenfield

Book Overview

When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social information and the arbiters of literary and artistic taste. British Periodicals and Romantic Identity explores how periodicals such as the Edinburgh, Blackwood s, and the Westminster became the repositories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349376019
• ISBN13: 9781349376018
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"