British periodicals and romantic identity: the "literary lower empire"
Auteur :
Schoenfield, M.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349376018
Date de publication :
8 janv. 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social information and the arbiters of literary and artistic taste.