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Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture

This book contains elements based on two articles published before 2008: ‘P. G. Patmore’s Rejected Articles and the Image of the Magazine Market,’ Romanticism (2006) and ‘T. G. Wainewright’s Art Criticism and Metropolitan Magazine Style,’ Romantic Textualities (2007). Both of these articles are exploratory pieces written and published while I was in my first two years of a PhD. The sections incorporated have been substantially re-written. They are also framed quite differently. Both articles offer discussions of individual writers: in the revised form these writers are examples among many which substantiate an argument about a larger magazine culture.

The core research of this book is based upon extensive and original study of runs of 43 different periodicals, in many cases requiring study of issues across 10 or more years of their run. In many cases these periodicals were new to scholarship. Magazines are miscellaneous, so the study required familiarity with and analysis of a very wide range of types of material across 3 years of an AHRC-funded PhD. The book offers insights into the nature of Romantic-period culture that will benefit a wide range of scholars, insights made possible by this research.