The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety.
| ISBN: | 9780230251786 |
| Publication date: | 29th March 2011 |
| Author: | David Stewart |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies Media studies Literary theory Fiction |