Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship

by Karen Fang

Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by such late Romantic authors as John Keats, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Letitia Landon, and Lord Byron. Karen Fang explores the collaboration of these authors with periodical magazines to show how an interdependent relationship between these visual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813928745
• ISBN13: 9780813928746
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"