William Christie

The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138665095
• ISBN-10: 1138665096
• Artikelnr.: 45332866

Autorenporträt

William Christie

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Recent Whig Interpretations of Romantic Literary History; Chapter
1 'Strange Vigour': A Review of Reviews; Chapter 2 'The Modern Athenians':
The Edinburgh Enterprise; Chapter 3 'The Self-Indulgence and
Self-Admiration of Genius': Jeffrey, Wordsworth and the Common
Apprehension; Chapter 4 'That Superior Tribunal': Jeffrey and Wordsworth on
the People and the Public; Chapter 5 'A Mortal Antipathy to Scotchmen': The
Biographia and the Edinburgh Review; Chapter 6 'Running with the English
Hares and Hunting with the Scotch Bloodhounds': Jeffrey and Byron; Chapter
7 'Wars of the Tongue': Blackwood's against the Edinburgh Review in
Post-War Edinburgh; Chapter 8 'Beware, O Teufelsdröckh, of Spiritual
Pride!': Jeffrey and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus;