William Maginn and the British press : a critical biography /
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| Author / Creator: | Latané, David E. |
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013] |
| Description: | xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9956246 |
| Summary: | The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn (1794-1842), David Latané's meticulously researched biography follows Maginn's life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist and writer and finally to his sad decline and incarceration in debtor's prison. A founding editor of the daily Standard (1827), Maginn was a prodigal author and editor. He was an early and influential contributor to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and a writer from the Tory side for The Age, New Times, English Gentleman, Representative, John Bull, and many other papers. In 1830, he launched Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, the early venue for such Victorians as Thackeray and Carlyle, and he was intimately involved with the poet 'L.E.L.' In 1837, he wrote the prologue for the first issue of Bentley's Miscellany, edited by Dickens. Through painstaking archival research into Maginn's surviving letters and manuscripts, as well as those of his associates, Latané restores Maginn to his proper place in the history of nineteenth-century print culture. His book is essential reading for nineteenth-century scholars, historians of the book and periodical, and anyone interested in questions of authorship in the period. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409449416 1409449416 9781409449423 9781472403421 1409449424 9781409449423 1472403428 9781472403421 |
