Romantic periodicals and print culture /

With this collection of eight essays, Wheatley (College of William and Mary) attempts to recontextualize Romantic writers by way of the periodical press. The editor's introduction provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of scholarship on Romantic periodicals. Many of the essays reemphasize the extensive involvement of Romantic writers in the social, economic, political, and ideological struggles of their time. The contributors examine the relationships of writers such as William Wordsworth, Amelia Opie, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Charles Lamb with such periodicals as Monthly Magazine, Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, London Magazine, and New Monthly Magazine. Each essay is carefully documented with copious endnotes, and an abstract accompanies each. This book makes a valuable contribution to new historicist scholarship's effort to see the complete spectrum of Romantic print culture. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. J. D. Vann University of North Texas