Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo

by Richard Cronin

Book Overview

This study of the literary culture in Britain in the years after Waterloo begins with an account of two fatal duels, the famous duel of 16 February 1821, in which John Scott, editor of the London Magazine, fell, and the less well known duel of 26 March 1822, in which Alexander Boswell, son of Johnson's biographer, was killed. These duels, Richard Cronin suggests, bring into sharp focus the distinctive features of literary culture in the years after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958253X
• ISBN13: 9780199582532
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"