Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay - Transatlantic Retrospects (Hardcover)

Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay is the first extensive literary history of the eighteenth-century British periodical essay, and the first to examine the critical reception and canonizing of the genre in a transatlantic context. Drawing on a wide range of early Modern and Enlightenment essays, character writings and critical reviews, it argues that authors on both sides of the Atlantic came to regard the periodical essay as a literary means of transmitting moral-civic wisdom to posterity. As it traces the developments and changes in the genre across the century, this study devotes special attention to important but lesser-read mid-century London serials like the" World" and "Connoisseur," the "Edinburgh Mirror" and "Lounger," and Washington Irving's "Salmagundi." By recovering the conception of literary citizenship that grounds these serials' claims to the notice of posterity, "Urban Enlightenment" gives new insights into the historical character of the Enlightenment literary public sphere.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	R. Squibbs
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-37823-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	1-137-37823-9
Barcode:	9781137378231

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