Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture

Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects of early 19th-century periodicals the essays in this collection treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in which Romantic ideals were challenged modified and developed.Contributors to the volume discuss a range of different periodicals from the elite Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews through William Cobbett's populist weekly newspaper Two-Penny Trash to the miscellaneous monthly magazines typified by Blackwood's. While some contributors to the volume approach the phenomenon of Romanticism within periodical culture from a more materialist standpoint than others several elaborate upon recent intersections between Romantic studies and gender studies.