The British Periodical Text, 1797-1835

About

This collaborative book derives from the 2006 Bristol University Conference on periodicals culture in the Romantic era.

The essays in this collection indicate that the periodical text presented a novel and challenging medium in the Romantic period and enabled a particularly vibrant and varied genre.

Contents

Simon Hull “˜Editing Elia: Lamb, the London, and the Essayistic Figure”

John Halliwell Loyalist Satire, Parody, and The Anti-Jacobin

Richard Cronin Magazines and Romantic Modernity

Wendy Hunter “˜A Powerful Engine of Social Improvement”: James Hogg
and Chambers” Edinburgh Journal

Michael Bradshaw “˜Bloody John Lacy”:The London Magazine and the Doldrums of English Drama

Ohn Strachan Fighting Sports and late Georgian Periodical Culture

About the author

Simon Hull a research-active, published Romanticist, with extensive experience of teaching English Literature across a wide range of areas, from the Renaissance to the Modernist era. He is currently Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Science Malaysia and was Assistant Professor of English Literature at Alfaisal University. A monograph on periodical writing and metropolitan culture in the 1820s, as embodied in the essays of Charles Lamb, was published by Pickering & Chatto in 2010.