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British Periodicals and Romantic Identity

The "Literary Lower Empire"

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  • © 2009

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  1. Mark Schoenfield
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Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 1-9

  3. Culture Wars in the Lower Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Skirmishes in the Lower Empire

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 13-47

    3. Incorporating Voices: the Edinburgh Review

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 49-78

    4. Proliferating Voices: Founding the Quarterly Review and Maga

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 79-108

  4. Soldiers of Fortune in the Periodical Wars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Epeating Selves: Hume, Hazlitt, and Periodic Repetition

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 111-128

    3. Lord Byron Among the Reviews

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 129-179

    4. Abraham Goldsmid: Financial Magician and the Public Image

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 181-199

    5. Spying James Hogg’s Bristle in Blackwood’s Magazine

      • Mark Schoenfield
      Pages 201-238

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-296
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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 and creators of "public opinion." In addition, Schoenfield examines how particular figures, both inside and outside the editorial apparatus of the reviews and magazines, negotiated this public and rapidly professionalized space. Ranging from Lord Byron, whose self-identification as lord and poet anticipated his public image in the periodicals, to William Hazlitt, equally journalist and subject of the reviews, this engaging study explores both canonical figures and canon makers in the periodicals and positions them as a centralizing force inthe consolidation of Romantic print culture.

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"Schoenfield thrillingly immerses us in the realm of romantic era periodicals, and reveals how they ushered in new forms of personal identity. This masterful study should be required reading for anyone interested in the intersection of politics and literature. The book as a whole stands as a model of impressively erudite but also totally engaging scholarship. I especially admired Schoenfield s bravura in reading Byron s embattled relationship with the reviewers." - Judith Pascoe, Professor of English, University of Iowa and author of The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors

"British Romanticism invented the modern media - the literary lower empire of magazines and reviews explored in Schoenfield s new book. In a series of supple, vivid case studies, Schoenfield tracks the forging of literary identity in the Romantic culture wars. He shows us a noisier, funnier, bloodier Romanticism than we have been used to, and it will never look the sameagain." - Ian Duncan, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

"British Periodicals and Romantic Identity offers an impressively wide-ranging and compellingly detailed analysis of how a complex interplay of print voices at once shaped and resisted Romantic notions of selfhood." - Kim Wheatley, Associate Professor, English Department, College of William and Mary

About the author

MARK SCHOENFIELD is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Professional Wordsworth: Law, Labor, and the Poet's Contract. He is the former president of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies and has published articles in The Wordsworth Circle, Studies in Romanticism, and various other journals.

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