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Record Nr.

UNISA996487160003316

Autore

Batchelor Jennie <1976->

Titolo

The lady's magazine (1770 - 1832) and the making of literary history / / Jennie Batchelor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4744-8766-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism

Disciplina

052

Soggetti

Women's periodicals, English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Origins: The Birth of the Women's Magazine -- 2. Beginnings: The Making of the Lady's Magazine (1770-2) -- 3. Modes, Media and Miscellaneity: The Contents of the Lady's Magazine -- 4. Authors, Readers, Writing Cultures -- 5. Rivals: The Changing Face of the Women's Magazine -- 6. Achievements and Legacies: The Lady's Magazine in Literary History -- Afterword -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesProvides the first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesInterrogates and revises critical commonplaces and narratives about form, authorship, reading and gender through rigorous archival research on the magazine's authors, readers, printers and publishersMaps new directions in eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women's writing, and media and cultural history by modelling innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies for historical periodical studiesMoves the women's magazine from the periphery to the centre of eighteenth-century and Romantic print cultureIn December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all [her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades championed



women's reading and women's writing has yet to be documented. This book offers the first sustained account of The Lady's Magazine. Across six chapters devoted to the publication's eclectic and evolving contents, as well as its readers and contributors, The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History illuminates the periodical's achievements and influence, and reveals what this vital period of literary history looks like when we see it anew through the lens of one of its most long-lived and popular publications.