British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The 'Literary Lower Empire' (Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters)

by Mark Schoenfield (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $61.00

  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.