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Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship
Karen Fang
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Description for Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship
Hardcover. With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book is suitable for scholars of book history and reading cultures and also to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by such late Romantic authors as John Keats, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Letitia Landon, and Lord Byron. Karen Fang explores the collaboration of these authors with periodical magazines to show how an interdependent relationship between these visual themes and rhetorical style enabled these authors to model their writing on the imperial project. Fang argues that in the decades after Waterloo late Romantic authors used imperial culture to capitalize on the contemporary ... Read more
Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by such late Romantic authors as John Keats, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Letitia Landon, and Lord Byron. Karen Fang explores the collaboration of these authors with periodical magazines to show how an interdependent relationship between these visual themes and rhetorical style enabled these authors to model their writing on the imperial project. Fang argues that in the decades after Waterloo late Romantic authors used imperial culture to capitalize on the contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928746
SKU
V9780813928746
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About Karen Fang
Karen Fang is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston.
Reviews for Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship
"Karen Fang's Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs makes an original and important contribution to Romantic criticism by highlighting the importance of the connections between several disparate fields of inquiry: periodical writing, postcolonial theory, and print culture approaches generally. In doing so Fang highlights the ways that a rhetoric of empire enabled authors to situate themselves in a rapidly ... Read more