Literary Magazines and British Romanticism

In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the London Magazine, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work - indeed, magazines became one of the pre-eminent literary forms of the 1820s and 1830s. Examining the dynamic relationship between literature and culture which evolved within this context, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism claims that writing in such a setting enters into a variety of alliances with other contributions and with ongoing institutional concerns that give subtle inflection to its meaning. The book provides an extended treatment of Lamb’s Elia Essays, Hazlitt’s Table-Talk Essays, Noctes Ambrosianae, and Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus in their original contexts, and should be of interest to scholars of cultural and literary studies as well as Romanticists.

• A full-length study of literary magazines • Provides extended treatments of Lamb’s Elia Essays, Hazlitt’s Table-Talk Essays, Noctes Ambrosianae, and Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus in their original contexts • A comprehensive work in a neglected area of Romantic studies

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the study of literary magazines; 1. Ideology and editing: the political context of the Elia essays; 2. A conversation between friends: Hazlitt and the London Magazine; 3. The burial of Romanticism: the first twenty installments of ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’; 4. Magazine Romanticism: the New Monthly, 1821–1825; 5. Sartor Resartus in Fraser’s: toward a dialectical politics; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

‘… alert, stimulating, and abundantly documented …’ Yearbook of English Studies

‘Literary Magazines and British Romanticism is a vivid and detailed picture of the intense intellectual life of magazines.’ Romanticism