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Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo
Richard Cronin
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Description for Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo
Hardback. This book begins with two fatal duels, as the most apt introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a radical reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBF; FC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1648. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
This study of the literary culture in Britain in the years after Waterloo begins with an account of two fatal duels, the famous duel of 16 February 1821, in which John Scott, editor of the London Magazine, fell, and the less well known duel of 26 March 1822, in which Alexander Boswell, son of Johnson's biographer, was killed. These duels, Richard Cronin suggests, bring into sharp focus the distinctive features of literary culture in the years after Waterloo. The book ranges widely but at its centre are the three literary phenomena that best define the period: Walter Scott's novels, Byron's ... Read more
This study of the literary culture in Britain in the years after Waterloo begins with an account of two fatal duels, the famous duel of 16 February 1821, in which John Scott, editor of the London Magazine, fell, and the less well known duel of 26 March 1822, in which Alexander Boswell, son of Johnson's biographer, was killed. These duels, Richard Cronin suggests, bring into sharp focus the distinctive features of literary culture in the years after Waterloo. The book ranges widely but at its centre are the three literary phenomena that best define the period: Walter Scott's novels, Byron's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199582532
SKU
KAC0004409
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About Richard Cronin
Richard Cronin is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely, especially on Romantic and Victorian literature. His Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 appeared in 2002, and Emma, co-edited with Dorothy McMillan, appeared in The Cambridge edition of the Works of Jane Austen in 2005.
Reviews for Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo
A valuable contribution to Romantic-era print culture studies
David Finkelstein, Years Work in English Studies
The volume makes any number of useful and often surprising connections between cultural and literary developments in the decade after Waterloo, and it does so with intellectual creativity, analytical nuance, and stylistic panache.
Review 19
fine new study
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David Finkelstein, Years Work in English Studies
The volume makes any number of useful and often surprising connections between cultural and literary developments in the decade after Waterloo, and it does so with intellectual creativity, analytical nuance, and stylistic panache.
Review 19
fine new study
Essays in ... Read more