Romantic writing and the empire of signs : periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship / / Karen Fang

• Autore: Fang Karen Y
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3581
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; British periodicals - History - 19th century; Romanticism - Great Britain; Imperialism in literature; Orientalism in literature; Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Authors and publishers - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing -- China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex -- "But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style -- Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal -- Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.
• Sommario/riassunto: With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.
• Titolo autorizzato: Romantic writing and the empire of signs
• ISBN: 1-280-49042-X; 9786613585653; 0-8139-2882-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818725003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II