Record Nr.

UNINA9910810147003321

Autore

Hull Simon P.

Titolo

Charles Lamb, Elia and the London magazine : metropolitan muse / / by Simon P. Hull

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-66515-0

1-317-31569-3

1-315-65331-1

1-282-50232-8

9786612502323

1-85196-667-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The history of the book ; ; no. 5

Disciplina

824.7

Soggetti

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Consuming the periodical text : Hunt, Hazlitt and the anxiety of Cockneyism -- Domesticating the flâneur : Coleridge, De Quincey and the forms of metropolitanism -- The Great Wen and the Rural Gothic -- Utility and pity : Wordsworth, Blake, and Egan, and the act of charity -- Lamb, theatricality and the fool -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles that Charles Lamb wrote for the London Magazine. A large number of Lamb's essays are here discussed in their historical context but also, crucially, within the context of the periodical as an integral part of Lamb's construction of self. Hull argues that Lamb's persona of Elia is a pivotal figure in the London Magazine - an embodiment of what London is and what it stands for. Lamb is an author who has proved particularly problematic for literary criticism. Here Hull is able to provide a balanced treatment, interpreting Elia as simultaneously an aspect of Lamb's humour and his political sensibility.