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Paper pellets : British literary culture after Waterloo
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This study begins with two fatal duels as an introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's ...
This study begins with two fatal duels as an introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo.
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- Creator
- Richard Cronin
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- viii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199582532, 019958253X
- OCLC
- ocn500794387
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255) and index.
- Two duels -- Two dinners -- Personalities -- Flesh-coloured silk -- Remembering peebles -- Mr. Knight's best small capitals -- Pistols and horsewhips -- Disunity of mind : the novel as magazine -- Practical asyndeton : the poem as magazine -- Cruel mockeries -- Jack and Gill -- Two cultures
Subjects
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Dueling -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.